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John Goff Ballentine was an American

United States

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 politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives

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 for Tennessee

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's 7th congressional district

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. He was born on May 20, 1825 in Pulaski, Tennessee

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 in Giles County. He graduated from Wurtemberg Academy in 1841, from the University of Nashville

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 in 1845, and from the law department of Harvard University

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 in 1848. He was a member of the faculty of Livingston Law School in New York

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. He commenced the practice of law in Pulaski.

John Ballentine moved to Mississippi

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 about 1854, continued the practice of law, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He settled in Memphis, Tennessee

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 in 1860. He served as a colonel

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 in the Confederate Army during the Civil War

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. He returned the Pulaski, Tennessee and was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1887. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886 and retired from active pursuits. He died in Pulaski, Tennessee on November 23, 1915. He was interred

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in the New Pulaski Cemetery.