Henry Fontaine Reese
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 15 Dec 1863 Christening: Death: 20 Sep 1943 1 Burial: Live Oak Cem., Selma, Dallas Co., Alabama Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Henry Winston Reese (1815-1898) Mother: Julia M. Winn (1824-1866)
Notes
General:
Alabama Official and Statistical Register (Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1907):
HENRY FONTAINE REESE, of Selma, Dallas county, was born near Demopolis, Marengo county, and is the son of Henry Winston and Julia Malvina (Winn) Reese, and the grandson of Herod and Frances Winston (Walker) Reese, who lived in Buckingham county, Va., and of Capt. Asa B. Winn and his wife, a Miss Schwartz, who lived in Marengo county. Senator Reese received his primary education from a governess, Miss Rose Pendleton, daughter of Gen. W. N. Pendleton, C. S. A.; afterwards he attended Howard College for three years; then entered the State University from which he was graduated in 1883 with the degree of A. B.; was graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, 1885, with the degree of LL. B., and from the same department in 1888 with the degree of LL. M.; was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in 1886; practiced in Washington, D. C., from June, 1889 to Dec., 1889, when he removed to his present residence in Selma; and for five years has been president of the bar association of Dallas county. He was law clerk in the U. S. Treasury Department, 1884 to 1889; represented Dallas county in the Constitutional Convention of 1901; served on the committees on education, legislative department, and State and county boundaries; was the author of and responsible for the constitutional provisions providing for private trials in rape cases, of provision fixing property basis of representation in Legislature, and also of an ordinance providing for an election of railroad commission; and was a member of the committee of the convention which prepared an address to the people of Alabama, advising the adoption of the present constitution. In November, 1906, he was elected to the State Senate. He is a Baptist; and a Royal Arch Mason. He was married in Selma, Dec. 8, 1886 to Kate, daughter of Dent and Elizabeth (Law) Lamar.
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"Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 102072273.
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