Hiram Casey Young (December 14, 1828 – August 17, 1899) was an American lawyer and politician and a member of the

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for the 10th congressional district of

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Biography

Young was born in

Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population of 1 ...

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. He moved with his parents to a farm near

Byhalia, Mississippi Byhalia , is a town in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,302 as of the 2010 census. History Byhalia was founded in the 1830s and named after Byhalia Creek, which flows past the site. Geography According to the U ...

in Marshall County in 1838. He attended the local schools, was tutored by his father, and also the Cavalry.

Career

Elected as a

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to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses, Young served from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1881, but was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1880. However he was elected to the Forty-eighth, serving in that period from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. During this Forty-eighth Congress, he was the chairman of the

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. He was not a candidate for renomination, but resumed the practice of law.

Death

Young died in

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on August 17, 1899, aged 70. He is

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at Elmwood Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Hiram Casey 1828 births 1899 deaths Politicians from Tuscaloosa, Alabama Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee 19th-century American politicians People from Byhalia, Mississippi