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Maddox, John W

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born June 3, 1848, in Chattooga county, Ga. He was elected to the Georgia state legislature in 1880, and re-elected in 1882.

He was elected to represent the fortysecond senatorial district in 1884; and was elected judge of the superior court in 1886, and re-elected in 1890. He resigned that office Sept. 1, 1892, to accept the democratic nomination for congress, and was elected to the fifty-third, firtyfourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as democrat. a

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