Granville Henderson Oury (March 12, 1825 – January 11, 1891) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer, judge and miner.
Born in Abingdon, Virginia, Oury and his family moved to Bowling Green, Missouri in 1836 where he pursued in academic studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. That year, he moved to San Antonio, Texas and in 1849 to Marysville, California where he engaged in mining. He then moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1856 an...
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Granville Henderson Oury (March 12, 1825 – January 11, 1891) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer, judge and miner.
Born in Abingdon, Virginia, Oury and his family moved to Bowling Green, Missouri in 1836 where he pursued in academic studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. That year, he moved to San Antonio, Texas and in 1849 to Marysville, California where he engaged in mining. He then moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1856 and began a law practice and was appointed a district judge for Arizona and New Mexico Territories in Mesilla, New Mexico.
At the outbreak of the Civil War and after the attack on Fort Sumter, Oury was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress representing the Arizona Territory. He later resigned to serve as a captain in Herbert’s Battalion, Arizona Cavalry in the Confederate Army. Oury also served as a colonel on the staff of General Henry Hopkins Sibley in Texas and Louisiana from 1862 to 1864. He took the oath of allegiance at Fort...
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