Background

Birney, James Gillespie was born on February 4, 1792 in Danville, Kentucky, United States. Son of James Birney.

Education

Graduated from College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1810.

Career

Admitted to bar, 1814. Elected member lower house Kentucky Legislature, 1816. Representative 1st General Assembly Alabama, 1819.

Agent American Colonization Society, 1832.

Executive secretary American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837. V. p. World Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840.

Liberty Party candidate for United States President, 1840, 44. Advocated abolition by political action.

Author: The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery, 1840.

Achievements

• James Gillespie Birney has been listed as a noteworthy reformer, legislator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Examination of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Strader, Gorman and Armstrong vs. Christopher Graham, delivered ... free colored people, advising them to remo

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  • Tribute to James G. Birney, A

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  • On the condition of the free people of color in the United States.

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  • The American Churches, the Bulwarks of American Slavery. By an American.

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• Other Work

  • Mr. Birney's second letter

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  • The Sinfulness of slaveholding in all circumstances: tested by reason and Scripture

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Membership

Member lower house Kentucky.

Connections

Married Agatha McDowell, February 1, 1816. Married second, Mission Fitzhugh, 1841. Children include Dion, David, and Fitzhugh.

Father:

James Birney. Birney

Spouse:

Agatha McDowell

Spouse:

Mission Fitzhugh