Background
Glass was born on October 18, 1824 in Houston, Virginia in Halifax County son of Dudley and Nancy Carr Glass.
Glass was born on October 18, 1824 in Houston, Virginia in Halifax County son of Dudley and Nancy Carr Glass.
In 1828, he moved with his parents to Weakley County, Tennessee where he attended Dresden Academy.
He was elected colonel of militia when he was eighteen years of age. He studied law, attended one course at Lexington (Kentucky) Law School. They had two children, Hiram Doctorate. and James Nelson.
Glass was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Ripley, Tennessee.
He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1848 and again in 1882. During the Civil War, Glass served as commissary with the rank of major in the Confederate service.
Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, Glass served from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1888.
Glass died in Ripley, Tennessee on October 9, 1902 (77 years, 356 days).
He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery.