J. A. Yordy
Jacob A. Yordy (died June 29, 1874)[1] was an American state senator in Alabama. He served two terms in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1868–1872.[2]
He was born in and grew up in South Annville Township, Pennsylvania.[1] He lived in Ohio before the Civil War.[3] He served with Company I of the Ohio "regikent volunteers".[1] He was one of the Northerners serving in the south during the Reconstruction era.[4] He was a Republican.[3] He wrote a message about election disturbances.[5]
John T. Foster preceded him as a state senator. Yordy served from 1868 to 1872 and was succeeded by William G. Little Jr.[6] He represented Sumter County, Alabama.[1] He was one of the signatories of a letter to the U.S. Senate protesting the election of George Goldthwaite. The letter said Goldthwaite did not receive a majority of votes from legitimately elected state legislators.[7]
He was said to be a U.S. customs house employee in Mobile during testimony about officials holding more than one public office at the same time.[8]
Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins wrote "J. A. Yordy and Alabama Ostracism of Republicans".published in the July 1967 edition of the Alabama Review.[9]
He died in Mobile, Alabama June 29, 1874.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Sudden Death". The Daily News. 3 July 1874. p. 4.
- ^ Owen, Thomas McAdory (September 22, 1921). "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography". S. J. Clarke publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Lincove, David A. (2000). Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313291999.
- ^ Fleming, Walter Lynwood. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama. Рипол Классик. ISBN 978-5-518-48727-7 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Congressional Serial Set". 1868.
- ^ Owen, Thomas Mcadory (1921). "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography".
- ^ "The Congressional Globe". 1871.
- ^ "Report ... Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872: Alabama". 1872.
- ^ Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 30 January 2000. ISBN 978-0-313-06501-9.
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