James M. Hinds
James M. Hinds of Little Rock, was a Reconstruction politician and lawyer who represented Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives from June 24, 1868 until his death on October 22, 1868. The first sitting member of Congress assassinated, Hinds was murdered for advocating civil rights for former slaves.
Hinds was born in Hebron, New York on December 5, 1833 to Charles and Jane Hinds. The youngest of six children, his brother Henry also became an attorney. Hinds other siblings were brothers William, John, and Calvin, and his sister, Jane. He attended high school at Washington Academy in Salem, New York, college at the Albany Normal School, and read law at a school in St. Louis, Missouri before graduating from Cincinnati Law School four years after his brother Henry.
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