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Curry, Jabez (Lamar Monroe)

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Curry, Jabez (Lamar Monroe) (1825-1903)

US representative and educator. He supported universal education in the South, for blacks and whites. He served in the US House of Representatives as a States Rights Democrat for Alabama 1857-61, and then in the Confederate Congress 1861-63. He was president of Howard College 1865-68, agent of the Peabody Fund 1881-1903, and director of the Southern Education Board 1901-03.

He was born in Lincoln County, Georgia. He studied law at Harvard and was deeply inspired by two men: John C Calhoun and Horace Mann. He was ambassador to Spain 1885-88.Alabama placed his statue in the US Capitol.
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