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Absolom Madden West (
1818 –
September 30 1894) was a Southern politician, soldier, railroad president and labor organizer.
Absolom M. West was born in
Alabama, where his father Anderson West was a county sheriff. His family obtained Federal land grants in
Mississippi and moved to
Holmes County, Mississippi, in 1837, where he became a
plantation owner. He won election to the
State Senate of that state as a
Whig in 1847.
Although initially an opponent of
secession, when the
American Civil War broke out West became a
brigadier general in the Mississippi State Militia. He raised a
regiment, and later assumed various administrative offices for the state. Sometimes simultaneously, he served as quartermaster-general, paymaster-general, and commissary-general. At his direction, the legislature established a commission consisting of one lawyer and two businessmen to examine and audit the books and papers of his several offices. At the end of the Civil War, West was the only officer of the state to make a final accounting. After 1864, West also served as president of the
Mississippi Central Railroad, which by that time had been mostly destroyed by the contending armies. After the war, the railroad was sold to the
Illinois Central, and West was returned to the State Senate.
Soon thereafter, he was elected to the Federal
House of Representatives although he, along with the rest of the unreconstructed Mississippi delegation, wasn't permitted to be seated. In the years that followed, West established a branch of the
National Labor Union, and served as a
Democratic elector for President in the
election of 1876.
Re-elected to the State Senate, he soon became disenchanted with the Democrats, and joined the
Greenback party. For that party, West was a candidate for Vice President on the ticket of
Benjamin Franklin Butler in
1884.
He died at
Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1894.
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