Mark Harden Blandford
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Mark Harden Blandford (July 13, 1826 – January 31, 1902) was an American soldier, attorney, politician, and judge. He was a Confederate Congressman during the American Civil War.
Biography
Mark Blandford was born in Warren County, Georgia. He served in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and in the Confederate States Army (12th Georgia Infantry Regiment) during the early part of the Civil War. He represented Georgia in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.
After the war, he served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1872. He died in Columbus, Georgia, January 31, 1902, and is buried in Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Georgia.
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- Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state)
- 19th-century American politicians
- Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state) justices
- American military personnel of the Mexican–American War
- Confederate States Army officers
- 1826 births
- 1902 deaths
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