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Richard Abbay
American politician (1838–1919) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Felix Abbay (June 9, 1838 - June 5, 1919) was an American politician and planter and a Democratic Mississippi state legislator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Biography
Richard Felix Abbay was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, on June 9, 1838.[1][2] He was the son of Richard, a planter, and Mary (Compton) Abbay.[1] Abbay was raised in Mississippi, and received his early education in Tennessee.[1][2] He graduated from Cumberland University in 1858.[1] He then had to go to Cuba due to poor health.[1] He was able to return to New Orleans on the last ship to enter the port before the Union blockade, the Habana.[1] After returning, Richard joined the Confederate States Army, but, after briefly serving, he had to return home (to Tunica County, Mississippi) after suffering a stroke of paralysis.[1]
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Career
Abbay read law under General James R. Chalmers and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1867.[1][2] After four years, he stopped practicing law to focus on his family plantation in Tunica County, Mississippi.[1][3] Abbay was first elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Tunica County as a Democrat in 1887 for the 1888-1890 term.[1][4] He was re-elected (in 1889) for the 1890-1892 term.[1] Abbay also served on the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention.[1] Abbay served again in the House from 1896 to 1900.[4][5] He was elected to the Mississippi State Senate in 1899 to represent the 34th district, which composed of Mississippi's Coahoma, Quitman, and Tunica counties, from 1900 to 1904.[3][6]
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Later life
Abbay died at his home in Commerce, Mississippi,[7] on June 5, 1919.[2]
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