Background
HARTRIDGE, Julian was born on September 9, 1829 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of a leading merchant.
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HARTRIDGE, Julian was born on September 9, 1829 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of a leading merchant.
Graduate Brown U., 1848, Harvard Law School, 1850.
After attending Chatham Academy and Montpelier Institute in Georgia, he graduated with high distinction from Brown University in 1848 and from Harvard Law School in 1850. On May 11, 1853, he married Mary M. Charlton, by whom he had nine children. Hartridge, a secessionist Democrat and a Baptist, practiced law in Savannah.
From 1854 to 1858, he was solicitor general for the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia. He was elected to and served in the Georgia House in 1858-1859 and was a delegate to the Charleston Democratic convention in 1860. When the war began, he volunteered as a lieutenant in the Chatham Artillery, but he saw little military service.
He was also an active, distinguished member of the first and second Confederate House of Representatives, having been elected from Georgia’s First Congressional District. He began as a supporter of the Davis administration but turned against it in his second term. During his first term, he served on the Conference and Ways and Means Committees and the special committee to inquire into illegal arrests.
In the second Confederate House, he served on the Commerce, Illegal Seizures and Impressments Committees, and on the special committee to increase Confederate forces. In 1863, he advocated the abolition of state commissary impressments. Financially ruined after the war, he recouped some of his losses after resuming his law practice in Savannah.
Hartridge served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1875 to 1879.
"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.
Member Ga; member 1st and 2d Confederate congresses, 1862-1865. Member United States Ho.
Spouse Mary M.