Excerpt from Official Congressional Directory: For the Use of the United States Congress, Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on Printing James H. Berry, of Bentonville, was born in Jackson County, Ala., May 15, 1841; removed to Arkansas in 1848; received a limited education at a private school at Berryville, Ark.; studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1866; entered the Confederate army in 1861 as second lieutenant Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry; lost a leg at the battle of Corinth, Miss, October 4, 1862; was elected to the legislature of Arkansas in 1866; was reelected in 1872; was elected speaker of the house at the extraordinary session of 1874; was president of the Democratic State convention in 1876; was elected judge of the circuit court in 1878; was elected governor in 1882; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed A. H. Garland, a pointed attorney-general, and took his seat March 25, 1885, and was reelected in 1 89 and 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.