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Mccreary, James Bennett

lawyer, congressman, governor, was born July 8, 1838, in Madison county, Ky. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the confederate army and was elected major of the eleventh Kentucky cavalry; and at the time of the surrender of the confederate forces was lieutenant-colonel of his regiment.

In 1869 he was elected a representative in the Kentucky legislature and was twice re-elected. In 1871 he was elected speaker and was re-elected in 1873. He was elected governor of Kentucky in 1875, and served four years. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fiftythird and fifty-fourth congresses as a. democrat.