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Jehu Amaziah Orr

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Jehu Amaziah Orr (May 10, 1828 – March 9, 1921) was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.

Orr was born in Anderson County, South Carolina. He was the younger brother of James L. Orr. He later moved to Mississippi, where he was a member of the state legislature in 1852. He later represented the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress. After the war he served as a state court judge from 1870 to 1876.