Hiram Casey Young was an American

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 lawyer and politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives

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 for the 10th congressional district

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 of Tennessee

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Young was born in Tuscaloosa

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, Alabama

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 in Tuscaloosa County

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. He moved with his parents to a farm near Byhalia, Mississippi

Byhalia, Mississippi

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 in Marshall County

Marshall County, Mississippi

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 in 1838. He attended the local schools, was tutored by his father, and also attended Marshall Institute in Mashall County, Mississippi. He studied law, was admitted to the bar

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 in 1859, and commenced practice in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

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. He served in the Civil War

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 from 1861 to 1865 as lieutenant colonel

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 of the Cavalry and on the brigade staff. In 1864, he was Assistant Inspector General for the First Division of the Cavalry.

He was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1881, but was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1880. However he was elected to the Forty-eighth, serving in that period from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. During this Forty-eighth Congress, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior.

He was not a candidate for renomination, but resumed the practice of law, and died in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

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 in 1899, aged 70. He was interred

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 in Elmwood Cemetery

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