John Milton Sandidge (January 7, 1817 – March 30, 1890) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Louisiana
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.
Biography
Born near
Carnesville, Georgia
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History
Carnesville was founded in 1805 as the seat of Franklin County. It was incorporated as a town in 1819 and as ...
, Sandidge moved to Louisiana and became a planter.
He served as colonel in the Mexican War.
He served as member of the
State house of representatives 1846-1855 and served two years as speaker.
He served as delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1852.
Sandidge was elected as a
Democrat
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to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-fifth Congress).
He served throughout the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
as Colonel of Bossier Cavalry. When Brigadier General
Henry Watkins Allen
Henry Watkins Allen (April 29, 1820April 22, 1866) was a member of the Confederate States Army and the Texian Army as a soldier, also serving as a military leader, politician, writer, slave owner, and sugar cane planter.
He had made it to the ...
was made Governor of Louisiana, he called Colonel Sandidge to his staff as Chief of Ordnance, the position he held until the close of hostilities. Sandidge surrendered the archives of the State by special request of Governor Allen. Sons, James and George Sandidge served in the Confederate Army.
He died in
Bastrop, Louisiana, on March 30, 1890, and was interred in Christ Church Cemetery.
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1890 deaths
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Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana
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