Background
BLANDFORD, Mark Hardin was born in Warren County, Georgia, United States, United States. Son of the wealthy Judge Mark A. Blandford and his wifeon July 13,1826.
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Mark Hardin BLANDFORD
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Education
Private school, southern university.
Career
He attended Mercer University and was admitted to the Hamilton, Georgia, bar in 1844 at the age of eighteen. Blandford’s marriage to Sarah C. Daniel on December 12, 1852, was childless. In 1846, he served in the Mexican War as a sergeant in the Georgia Light Infantry, after which he became a successful businessman and lawyer in Buena Vista, Marion County, Georgia.
At the outbreak of the war, he joined the Georgia state army. As a member of the 12th Georgia Regiment, he lost an arm at the battle of McDowell, Virginia, in May 1862. President Davis subsequently made him a judge in the military court, with the rank of lieutenant colonel of cavalry.
Elected to the second Confederate House in 1864, Blandford cast over half of his votes against the administration, although he supported President Davis’s efforts to end class exemptions from military service. He served on the Judiciary, Pay and Mileage Committees, and on the special committee to investigate Stewart Hospital. When the war ended, he returned to his law practice.
In 1869, he moved to Columbus, Georgia. From 1872 to 1880, he was an associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
