Jacob Shall Golladay (January 19, 1819 – May 20, 1887) was a 19th-century politician from

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. He served in the

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and

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, followed by two terms as a

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for the

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(1867 to 1870). His brother

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also became an attorney and served as a US Congressman from Tennessee.

Early life

Jacob Golladay was born in 1819 in Lebanon, Tennessee. His father Isaac was a descendant of French

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s who emigrated to

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about 1700 from Germany after escaping religious persecution against Protestants in France. The spelling of the family name is likely an anglicised version of the French surname "Gallaudet". His mother was of German ancestry, with immigrant ancestors who arrived later in the 18th century. In 1815 the Golladay family moved to

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, where both Jacob and his younger brother

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were born. After attending public school, Jacob moved in 1838 to

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(later organized as Todd County), where he worked for seven years in a wholesale store. In 1845 he settled in Allensville, on the southern border of the state, where he started a practice as a lawyer. In 1846 Golladay married Elizabeth Cheatham, step-daughter of Prof. VV. K. Bolling, of

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, who became president of the

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. They had five children: Melissa, John Jacob, Archer, Bowling, and Elizabeth. Only Bowling survived to adulthood; he was educated at

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in Nashville. All of the children are buried beside their parents.

Politics

In 1851 Golladay won election as a

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to the

representing Allensville. He resigned in 1853 to take up a seat in the

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, stepping down in 1855 after a single term. In 1860, Golladay was chosen as an elector for Constitutional Union Party presidential candidate John Bell and running mate

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for the

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. This party favored preservation of the Union, but urged compromise and peaceful solutions. On December 5, 1867 he was elected as a Democrat to the

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, representing Kentucky's 3rd congressional district following the death of the previous Representative, Elijah Hise. He was re-elected to the Forty-first Congress but retired on February 28, 1870, before the end of his term.

Later life

After Congress, Golladay resumed his legal practice in

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. He died near Russellville in 1887 and was buried next to his son in Maple Grove Cemetery.

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