Albert Seaton Berry
Information comes from the Biographical Directory of the
United States Congress
ALBERT SEATON BERRY, a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Fairfield (now Dayton), Campbell
County, Ky., May 13, 1836; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1855 and from the Cincinnati
Law School in 1858; was admitted to the bar and practiced; prosecuting attorney
of Newport, Ky., in 1859; served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil
War; mayor of Newport in 1870 and served five terms; member of the State senate
in 1878 and 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful candidate for
re-nomination in 1900; resumed the practice of law; appointed and subsequently
elected judge of the seventeenth judicial district of Kentucky and served from
1905 until his death in Newport, Campbell County, Ky., January 6, 1908;
interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
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