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Neal, John Randolph

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1838, in Anderson county, Tenn. He enlisted in the confederate army; and in 1863 was promoted to a colonelcy. In 1874 he was elected a representative in the Tennessee legislature; in 1878 was elected a state senator, and upon the assembling of the legislature in 1879 was elected speaker of the senate, and ex-officio lieutenant-governor of the state; and in 1880 he was a presidential elector. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.