Background
Granville Oury was born on March 12, 1825, in Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia, United States. He was the son of Augustus and Catherine Sanders Oury. He moved to Bowling Green, Missouri, with his family in 1836.
Granville Oury was born on March 12, 1825, in Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia, United States. He was the son of Augustus and Catherine Sanders Oury. He moved to Bowling Green, Missouri, with his family in 1836.
While in Bowling Green, Granville studied law.
Granville Oury was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1848. A Democratic lawyer and a farmer, he moved to San Antonio, Texas, before joining the mining rush to California in 1849. In 1856, he went to Tucson, Arizona, to practice law.
He was a district court judge for Arizona and New Mexico before the Civil War. Oury, a secessionist, was elected to represent the Arizona Territory as a nonvoting delegate to the provisional Confederate Congress. His appointment was primarily a symbolic gesture to show the Confederate government’s concern for territories.
Oury resigned from the Congress in 1861 to serve as a captain in Herbert’s Battalion of the Arizona Cavalry in the Confederate Army. He also served as a colonel under General Henry Sibley in various western campaigns during 1862. In Arizona, he fought the unionist policies of John Robert Baylor and Malcolm MacWillie.
After the war, Oury returned to his Tucson law practice. In 1866, he was elected speaker of the territorial House, and later he became attorney general for Maricopa County from 1871 to 1873. Granville served as a district attorney for Pinal County, Arizona from 1879 to 1880. From 1881 to 1885, he served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives.
Oury was a member of the Democratic Party.
In 1863 Granville married Sarah Malvina Sanders.
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