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Absalom Harris Chappell was an American politician, lawyer, and historian. He served as a Member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 7th district from 1843 to 1845.
Background
Absalom Harris Chappell, the son of Joseph and Dorothy (Harris) Chappell, was born on December 18, 1801, in Mount Zion, Georgia, United States. His mother’s father, for whom he was named, was a soldier in the Revolutionary army. His father, born most likely in Virginia, the descendant of Englishmen who came to America in the seventeenth century, died in Georgia in 1807, when about forty years of age.
Education
Absalom attended the Mt. Zion Academy near his home, and then read law for two years in New York City. Later, he returned to Athens, Georgia, and read law further in the office of Judge Augustin Smith Clayton before being admitted to the bar in 1821.
Career
Chappell lived in several places, at times approximately as follows—in Sandersville (1821 - 1824), in Forsyth (1824-1836), in Macon (1836 - 1858), and in Columbus (1858 - 1878). During 1836-1837 he helped organize the Monroe and the Western & Atlantic railways, and devised schemes for promoting foreign trade directly through Georgia ports. His successful activities as a lawyer were constantly interrupted by his participation in politics, and, during his Columbus residence, by his farming interests in Alabama.
He was for many years a trustee of the state university, a state legislator and senator, and, in 1843-1844 a congressman in Washington.
In local politics he was of the Troup faction. Nationally, he was a state-rights Whig, but his party loyalty came under such suspicion while he was in Congress that he felt obliged to issue in justification of himself his letter To the People of Georgia (1844). He was a member from time to time—always with distinguished associates—of many public commissions in Georgia. In 1839 he was appointed in this capacity to perfect a system of finance—in 1849, to suggest improvements for the school system—in 1853, to report on public institutions —and, in 1867, to prepare an address to Georgians and to Americans in general on the political abuses then current in the South.
When he went to live in Columbus, he thought of himself as withdrawing from public life, but he took part in the agitation for secession. And even when he was past seventy—reduced by the war to poverty, and by Reconstruction to something like despair—his patriotism asserted itself in his Miscellanies of Georgia (1874). This book is written in a grandiose style, and is of comparatively little worth as history. It remains valuable for the impression it gives of its author who, though perhaps too consistently grave, was always dominated by a sort of classic integrity and fortitude.