Hilliard, Henry W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 4, 1808, in Fayetteville, N. C. In 1838 he was elected to the Alabama state legislature, and in 1840 a presidential elector. In 1842 he was appointed minister to Belgium. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1843 to 1851.
During the civil war he served in the confederate army, and subsequently practiced law in Atlanta, serving as minister to Brazil in 1877-81. He was the author of Speeches and Addresses; De Vane, a Story of Plebeians and Patricians; and Politics and Pen Pictures. He died Dec. 17, 1892, in Atlanta, Ga.