George, James Zachariah (1826–1897)

US soldier, jurist, and politician, who served in the US Senate as a representative of Mississippi (1881–97), and was the only Democrat to share in the framing of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law (1890). He strove always to protect his state and the South from federal interference. George was born in Monroe County, Georgia. He moved to Mississippi and passed the bar in 1847. He served in both the Mexican War and in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He was a reporter for the Mississippi Supreme Court and then chief justice for the court (1879–81). The sate of Mississippi placed his statue in the US Capitol.