Samuel Bell Maxey
Samuel Bell Maxey was born
at Tomkinsville, Kentucky, March 30, 1825. He graduated at West
Point in 1846. He served with distinction in the war with
Mexico. In 1849 he resigned his commission in the army and the
next year began the practice of law in his native state.
In 1857 he moved to
Texas. At the outbreak of the Civil War he espoused the cause of
the South and raised a regiment (9th Texas) for the Confederate
service. In 1862 he was made a brigadier general. As a
result of his conduct at the battles of Prairie Dann and Poison
Springs, under Gen. Sterling Price, in the spring of 1864 he was
promoted to the grade of major general. After the war closed he
resumed the practice of law at his home.
In 1874 he was elected to
the United States Senate and six years later was re-elected. His
career as senator was distinguished by both ability and
activity. He died in Arkansas in 1895.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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