Malcolm Daniel Graham (July 6, 1827 – October 6, 1878) was a

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politician.

Life

He was born in Autauga County,

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and later moved to

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. He served in the

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in 1857 and as Attorney General from 1858 to 1860. He was a delegate to the Texas Secession Convention and was signer of the Ordinance of Secession.B. P. Gallaway.
Texas, the Dark Corner of the Confederacy: Contemporary Accounts of the Lone Star State in the Civil War
'. University of Nebraska Press; 1994 [Retrieved 6 August 2017]. . p. 235–237. He represented the state in the

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from 1862 to 1864. He also served as a colonel in the

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. He was married to Sarah Cornelia Bethea. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama. He had a son, named Malcolm A. Graham, who served in the Alabama House of Representatives in the late 1910s.

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