Joseph H. Acklen

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Joseph H. Acklen
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 3rd district
In office
February 20, 1878 – March 4, 1881
Preceded byChester Bidwell Darrall
Succeeded byChester Bidwell Darrall
Personal details
BornMay 20, 1850
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
DiedSeptember 28, 1938(1938-09-28) (aged 88)
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Resting placeMount Olivet Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic
Parent(s)Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen
Adelicia Acklen
RelativesWilliam Hayes Ackland (brother)
ResidenceBelmont Mansion
Alma materBurlington Military College
École de Neuilly
Swiss University
Cumberland School of Law
OccupationPolitician

Joseph Hayes Acklen (May 20, 1850 – September 28, 1938) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1878 to 1881.

Biography

Early life

Joseph Hayes Acklen was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Adelicia and Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen, a wealthy couple whose summer home was located in Nashville, while he also grew up on plantations in Louisiana. He had a brother, William Hayes Ackland. During the American Civil War, his parents sided with the Confederacy, and the father fled to the family's Louisiana plantation, where he died in 1863.

He was educated by private tutors. He attended Burlington Military College, near Burlington, New Jersey, in 1864 and 1865, and graduated from two foreign institutions (École de Neuilly, Paris, and Swiss University, Vevey). He returned to the United States and graduated from Cumberland University's law school in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1871.

Career

He began practicing law in Nashville and later practiced in Memphis, Tennessee, but abandoned the practice of law and moved to Louisiana to superintend the family's sugar plantations near Pattersonville (now Patterson) in Saint Mary Parish.

He served as

Forty-sixth Congress, and served from 20 February 1878 to 4 March 1881. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880, and Darrall regained the seat for one term (the Forty-seventh Congress
).

On leaving Congress, he declined an appointment by

President Rutherford B. Hayes to be a judge on the Federal district court of Louisiana and instead resumed the practice of law, in Franklin, Louisiana
. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress.

He returned to Nashville, in 1885 and continued the practice of law. He served as chairman of the Democratic executive committee of

St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
from 1907 to 1911.

From 1913 to 1914, he served under Democrat U.S. President

fish culture, forestry, and field sports
. He served as chairman of the State central committee on the Tennessee constitutional convention from 1923 to 1927.

Death and legacy

He died in Nashville on September 28, 1938. He is interred there in Mount Olivet Cemetery. His family's Nashville property, the Belmont Mansion and its grounds, now forms a large part of the campus of Belmont University, where the home continues as a museum. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

References

  1. ^ - Belmont Mansion, Nashville. Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
  • United States Congress. "Joseph H. Acklen (id: A000023)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district
February 20, 1878 – March 4, 1881 		Succeeded by
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