Jeremiah Haralson

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Jeremiah Haralson (April 1, 1846 - 1916), was a Representative from Alabama.

Born on a plantation near Columbus, Georgia, he was raised as a slave and was self-educated. He moved to Alabama and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He became a minister.

He was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1870; served in the State Senate in 1872 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress.

He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877); he was appointed to a Federal position in the United States customhouse in Baltimore, Maryland.

He was later employed as a clerk at the Department of the Interior; appointed on August 12, 1882 to the Pension Bureau in Washington, D.C.; he resigned on August 21, 1884.

He moved to Louisiana, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and from there to Arkansas in 1904, where he served as pension agent for a short time. He returned to Alabama and settled in Selma in 1912.

Moved to Texas and later to Oklahoma and Colorado; he was a coal miner in Colorado; he was killed by wild animals near Denver, Colorado circa 1916.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.