James Ronald Chalmers
James Ronald Chalmers was an American politician, state senator in Mississippi, Confederate States Army brigadier general and United States Congressman.
Chalmers was born in Halifax County, Virginia, January 11, 1831. His father was Joseph Chalmers, who, having moved to Mississippi when James was a boy, settled in Holly Springs and became U. S. senator. The son was prepared for South Carolina College at Columbia, where he was graduated in 1851, and returning to Holly Springs studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was district attorney in 1858, and in 1861 was a delegate to the convention which passed the ordinance of secession. Being, like his father, an ardent State rights Democrat, he gave his vote in favor of secession.
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