James Lawrence Pugh was a U.S. senator from Alabama, as well as a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
Pugh was born in Burke County, Georgia, and moved to Alabama in 1824. He received a collegiate education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He began to practise in Eufaula, Alabama. He was a presidential elector in 1848 and 1856. He represented Alabamas second district as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives fromDecember 1859 untilJanuary 1861, when he retired upon the secession of his state.
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