Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)
- Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)
Joseph (Jo) Abbott (January 15, 1840-February 11, 1908) was a member of the Confederate Army and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. He was born near Decatur, Alabama in 1840, where he attended the public schools. He moved with his parents to Freestone County, Texas, in 1853.
During the American Civil War, he served as a first lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment of the Texas Cavalry. He later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He began his legal practice in Springfield, Limestone County, Texas. He later moved to Hillsboro, Texas where he continued his legal career.
He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives in 1870 and 1871. He was appointed a district judge in the Twenty-Eighth judicial district by Governor Oran M. Roberts. In 1880, he was elected for a full four-year term for that position. In 1887, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives, and served in that capacity through the end of Fifty-Fourth Congress in 1897. Upon leaving Congress, he resumed his legal career in Hillsboro, Texas, where he died on February 11, 1908.
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* Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989: Bicentennial Edition." United States: Government Printing Office, 1989. ISBN 0-16-006384-1
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