Background
HOLT, Hines was born on April 27, 1805 in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States, United States. Son of George Holt.
United States representative lawyer politician member of the Georgia House of Representatives
HOLT, Hines was born on April 27, 1805 in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States, United States. Son of George Holt.
He completed preparatory studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (AB) from the University of Georgia's Franklin College in 1824. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and began a practice in Columbus, Georgia.
He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1824, studied law, and was admitted to the Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, bar. Holt was a Whig. He married and had a large family. He was an eminent lawyer and planter who in 1832, as a delegate to the state convention, had opposed nullification.
He held office briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1841 before returning to his law practice. In 1859, he was elected to the state Senate. Holt had once been a Know-Nothing.
He was a cooperationist at the time of the state secession convention, for which he was an unsuccessful candidate. During the war, he was too old to serve in the military, but in 1862, he represented the Third District of Georgia in the first Confederate House, where he served on the Conference and Ways and Means Committees as well as the special joint committee to wait on the president. In September 1862, he and Henry S. Foote jointly offered the first Congressional peace proposal.
Holt was also an ally of the Davis administration. He resigned his seat toward the end of his term and was replaced by Porter Ingram {. Holt returned to Georgia to his law practice and saw no further service in the Confederate government.
He did, however, serve in an advisory capacity to Governor Joseph E. Brown. When the war ended, he practiced law in Columbus, Georgia.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
He became a member of the House of Representatives of the First Confederate Congress in 1862 and resigned March 1, 1863, after the third session.