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Stephens, Abraham P

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

STEPHENS, ALEXANDER HAMIL- TON, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Feb. 11, 1812, in Crawfordsville, Ga. In 1836 he was elected to the lower house of the Georgia state: legislature, where he served five years; and in 1842 was elected to the senate of his state. In 1843 he was elected a representative in congress from Georgia, to which position he was regularly re-elected to the close of the thirty-fifth congress.

He became identified with the rebellion of 1861, and was chosen vice-president and member of congress of the so-called southern confederacy. In 1866 he was elected a senator in congress, but was not admitted, and was subsequently elected a representative to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. In 1882 he was elected governor of Georgia. He was the author of School History of the United States; History of the War Between the States; and Compendium of United States History. He died March 4, 1883, in Atlanta, Ga.