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Subject: [KYBELL] COLSON, David Grant, a Representative from Kentucky
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:28:15 EDT

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
Biographies
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page 1005
COLSON, David Grant, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Yellow Creek
(now Middlesboro), Knox (now Bell) County, Ky., April 1, 1861; attended the
common schools and the academies at Tazewell and Mossy Creek, Tenn.; studied law at
the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1879 and 1880; was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Pineville; examiner and special examiner in the
Pension Bureau of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., from
September 1882 to June 1886; returned to Kentucky in 1887; member of the State
house of representatives in 1887 and 1888; mayor of Middlesboro 1893-1895;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4,
1895-March 3, 1899); colonel of a Kentucky regiment during the Spanish-American
War: retired; died in Middlesboro, Ky., September 27, 1904; interment in Colson
Cemetery.

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