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Henry Washington Hilliard (August 4, 1808 – December 17, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama. ==Early life== Hilliard was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina and was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1826. While at South Carolina College, he was active in the Euphradian Society.〔Durham, David. A Southern moderate in radical times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892 (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2008), 13–14.〕 He studied law and moved to Athens, Georgia, where he was admitted to the bar in 1829. He was a professor in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa from 1831 to 1834, when he resigned to practice law in Montgomery, Alabama. He served as member of the state house of representatives in 1836–1838, as member of the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1839, Whig presidential elector in 1840 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840. He was chargé d'affaires to Belgium from May 12, 1842, to August 15, 1844. Hilliard was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851) but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1850. In 1856, he served as presidential elector on the National American ticket. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Washington Hilliard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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