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Goodwyn, Albert Taylor

soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1842, in Robinson Springs, Ala. He was educated at South Carolina college and the university of Virginia, from which latter institution of learning he was graduated in 1867; and is a farımer. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1886-87, and a member of the state senate from 1892 to 1896, and was state inspector of convicts from 1874 to 1880. He was in the confederate army from the beginning of the war to the end; participating in the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, and was mustered out at the close of the war as captain of a company of sharpshooters. He took his seat in the fifty-fourth congress April 22, 1896.