Jehu Amaziah Orr (May 10, 1828 – March 10, 1921) was a

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politician who served in the

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during the

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. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from

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in 1849 and later returned to receive a Master of Arts in 1857. Orr was born in Anderson County, South Carolina. He was the younger brother of James L. Orr. He later moved to

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, where he was a member of the state legislature in 1852. He later represented the state in the

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and the

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. After the war he served as a state court judge from 1870 to 1876. He died at the home of his daughter, suffragist and educator Pauline Van de Graaf Orr, in New York on March 10, 1921.

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1828 births 1921 deaths People from Anderson County, South Carolina American Presbyterians Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Mississippi 19th-century American legislators Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives South Carolina Democrats South Carolina lawyers 19th-century American lawyers {{SouthCarolina-politician-stub