Augustus Holmes Kenan

{{Short description|American politician (1805–1870)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Augustus Holmes Kenan |image = Augustus H. Kenan.png |image_size = 220px |alt = Portrait of Augustus H. Kenan with head and upper body facing right |office4 = Member of the [[Congress of the Confederate States|C.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]'s 4th district |term_start4 = February 18, 1862 |term_end4 = February 17, 1864 |predecessor4 = New constituency |successor4 = [[Clifford Anderson]] |office5 = Deputy from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] to the [[Provisional Confederate States Congress|Provisional Congress of the Confederate States]] |term_start5 = February 4, 1861 |term_end5 = February 17, 1862 |predecessor5 = New constituency |successor5 = Constituency abolished |birth_date = {{birth date|1805|4|21}} |birth_place = [[Baldwin County, Georgia]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1870|7|2|1805|4|21}} |death_place = [[Milledgeville, Georgia]], U.S. |resting_place = [[Memory Hill Cemetery]], Milledgeville, Georgia, U.S. }} '''Augustus Holmes Kenan''' (April 21, 1805 – June 2, 1870) was an American politician who served as the [[Congress of the Confederate States|Confederate States Congress Representative]] from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]'s 4th congressional district from 1862 to 1864. He was renowned for heroism in the [[Second Seminole War]], leveraging his acclaim to win seats in both houses of the [[Georgia General Assembly]]. He was a delegate to the Georgia Secession Convention and was elected by that body, Deputy to the [[Provisional Congress of the Confederate States]].<ref name="pgahk">[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kempa-kenan.html Kenan, Augustus Holmes (1805-1870)]. politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved July 22, 2013.</ref>

==Biography== Augustus H. Kenan was born April 21, 1805, in [[Baldwin County, Georgia]]. He was a lawyer by trade; residing in [[Milledgeville, Georgia|Milledgeville]] and Baldwin County his entire life. He was renowned as an able criminal lawyer of his era. Kenan married Henrietta G. Alston but was later divorced from her and remarried to Sarah Barnes of Baldwin County. They had five children of the marriage: Thomas Holmes, Lewis Holmes, Michael Johnston, Owen Tom, and Livingston. Kenan served in the [[Georgia House of Representatives]] and state [[Georgia Senate|Senate]]. He represented Georgia in the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862 and the 1st Confederate States Congress from 1862 to 1864, losing reelection to [[Clifford Anderson]]. Kenan died on June 2, 1870, and [[interred]] at [[Memory Hill Cemetery]] in [[Milledgeville, Georgia]].<ref name="pgahk"/>

==See also== * [[List of signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession]]

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==External links== * {{Find a Grave|7968154}}

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