Alderman, Edwin Anderson. J. L. M. Curry. An address by Edwin Anderson Alderman. [Brooklyn: Eagle Press], 1903.
CURRY, Jabez Lamar Monroe, a Representative from Alabama; born near Double Branches, Lincoln County, Ga., June 5, 1825; moved with his father to Talladega County, Ala., in 1838; was graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1843; studied law at Harvard University; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Talladega County in 1845; served in the war with Mexico as a private in the Texas Rangers in 1846, but resigned because of ill health; member of the State house of representatives in 1847, 1853, and 1855; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, to January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Confederate Congress and a Representative in the First Confederate Congress; during the Civil War served as lieutenant colonel of Cavalry in the Confederate Army; after the war became a Baptist preacher; chosen president of Howard College, Alabama, in 1865; professor in Richmond College, Virginia, 1868-1881; agent of the Peabody and States Funds from 1881 until his death; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain on October 7, 1885, and served until August 6, 1888, when he resigned; appointed Ambassador Extraordinary on special mission to Spain (the coming of age of the King) February 3, 1902; died in Victoria, near Asheville, N.C., February 12, 1903; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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[ Top ]Alderman, Edwin Anderson. J. L. M. Curry. An address by Edwin Anderson Alderman. [Brooklyn: Eagle Press], 1903.
Alderman, Edwin A., and Armistead Gordon. J.L.M. Curry: A Biography. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.
Chodes, John J. Destroying the republic: Jabez Curry and the re-education of the old south. New York: Algora Pub., 2005.
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe. Address delivered February 6th, 1885, by Hon. J. L. M. Curry ... in response to an invitation extended in a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of Alabama. Montgomery: Barrett & Co., printers, 1885.
------. Address delivered October 31st, 1893, by Hon. J.L.M. Curry, general agent of the Peabody and Slater Funds, in response to an invitation of the General Assembly of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.: G.W. Harrison, State Printer, 1893.
------. Admission of Kansas. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1858].
------. A brief sketch of George Peabody. Cambridge, [Mass.]: University Press, 1898.
------. Civil history of the government of the Confederate States, with some personal reminiscences. Richmond, Va.: B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1901.
------. Constitutional government in Spain, a sketch. New York: Harper & brothers, 1889.
------. The Constitutional rights of the states: Speech of J. L. M. Curry of Alabama in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1860. [Washington]: McGill, [1860?].
------. Difficulties, complications, and limitations connected with the education of the Negro. Baltimore: The Trustees, 1895.
------. Diplomatic services of George William Erving, by Hon. J. L. M. Curry, LL. D. Communicated to the Massachusetts Historical Society. With an introd. by Robert C. Winthrop. Cambridge, [Mass.]: J. Wilson, 1890.
------. Education of the Negroes since 1860. Baltimore: The Trustees, 1894.
------. Legal justification of the South in secession. Atlanta, Ga.: N.p., 1899.
------. Lessons of the Yorktown centennial. Address of the Hon. J.L.M. Curry, LL. D., delivered in Richmond, on 22d October, 1881. Richmond: Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1881.
------. Perils and duty of the South. Substance of a speech delivered by Jabez L. M. Curry, in Talladega, Alabama, November 26, 1860. [Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1860].
------. Principles, acts and utterances of John C. Calhoun, promotive of the true union of the states. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1898.
------. Richard Winn. N.p., n.d.
------. Session of the Alabama Legislature. 1847-1848. Washington, D.C.: The Society, 1892.
------. The South in the olden time. Harrisburg, Pa.: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1901.
------. The Southern States of the American Union considered in their relations to the Constitution of the United States and to the resulting Union. New York [etc.]: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894.
------. Speech of J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama, on the bill granting pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812. Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1858. [Washington: L. Towers, printer, 1858].
------. Speech of J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama, on the election of speaker, and the progress of anti-slaveryism. Washington: Printed by L. Towers, 1859.
------. Struggles and triumphs of Virginia Baptists [microform]. Philadelphia: Bible and Publication Society, [1873].
------. William Ewart Gladstone. Richmond: B. F. Johnson, 1891.
Kellam, W. Porter. "Reminiscences of Franklin College, by Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Class of 1843. With a Biographical Sketch of the Author and Notes." Georgia Historical Quarterly 69 (Summer 1985): 211-28.
Long, Durward. "Alabama's Secession Commissioners." Civil War History 9 (March 1963): 55-66.
Rice, Jessie Pearl. J.L.M. Curry, Southerner, Statesman and Educator. New York: King's Crown Press, 1949.