- Emory Speer
Emory Speer (
September 3 ,1848 –December 13 ,1918 ) was an Americanpolitician ,soldier andlawyer .Speer was born in Culloden, Georgia and joined Confederate Army during the Civil War at the age of sixteen serving in the Fifth Kentucky Regiment, Lewis brigade.
After the war, Speer attended the
University of Georgia in Athens where his father, Dr. Eustace W. Speer, had once been a faculty member. The younger Speer was a member of theDemosthenian Literary Society and a Charter Member of the Eta Chapter of theChi Phi Fraternity . He earned hisBachelor of Arts degree in 1869 and gained admittance to the state bar that same year and became a practicing lawyer in Athens.From 1873 until 1876, Speer was the solicitor general of Georgia. His first campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1876 was unsuccessful; however, he won election to the House in 1878 and again in 1880 before losing his re-election bid in 1882.
After his congressional service, Speer became the United States attorney for the northern district of Georgia from 1883 until 1885. He next served as the district judge of the southern Federal judicial district of Georgia from 1885 until 1918. During his district judgeship, Speer also served as the Dean of
Mercer University 'sWalter F. George School of Law inMacon, Georgia from 1893 until his death in 1918 in that same city. Speer was also buried in Riverside Cemetery in Macon.References
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* [http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/ebind2html.pl/reed_c07?seq=75 "History of the University of Georgia", Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949 pp.878-882]External links
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