Thomas J. Semmes letter books, 1885-1887, 1892-1893.
Related Entities
There are 1 Entities related to this resource.
Semmes, Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins), 1824-1899
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ms4fp6 (person)
Lawyer, member of the Confederate Senate, 1862-1865, and member of the law faculty of Tulane University, New Orleans, 1873-1879. From the description of Papers, 1835-1899. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20314014 Thomas Jenkins Semmes served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a delegate to the Louisiana secession convention (1861), where he helped draft the Ordinance of Secession. He was also elected senator to the Confederate Congress (1862-65),...