Capt. Granville Henderson Oury^[1]

1825 - 1891  (65 years)

• Name	Granville Henderson Oury
  Prefix	Capt.
  Born	12 Mar 1825	Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	11 Jan 1891	Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
  Buried	Adamsville Cemetery, Florence, Pinal County, Arizona   [2]
  Person ID	I328852	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2012

  
  

  Father	Argustus Oury
  Mother	Catherine "Caty" Sanders
  Family ID	F129084	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 11 Jan 1891 - Tucson, Pima County, Arizona  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S84] E-Mail, Linda Oury Rogers [lkoury@sbcglobal.net], 27 Aug 2012. [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 9371619). US Congressman. At age 11 he and his family moved to Bowling Green, Missouri where he went to school, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He then went through a series of moves that included San Antonio, Texas and Marysville, California in 1849 and to Tucson, Arizona in 1856. He was a judge of the district court for Arizona and New Mexico in Mesilla, New Mexico. In 1862, he was elected as Arizona's delegate to the Confederate Congress, but he resigned in the same year to become a Captain in the Arizona Cavalry in the Confederate Army. He served as a colonel under General Henry Sibley in Texas and Louisiana from 1862 to 1864. On October 8, 1865 he took the oath of allegiance to the United States at Fort Mason, Arizona and returned to his Tucson law practice. From 1866 to 1879 he served in various Arizona state political offices, including Speaker of the House of the Arizona Territorial House of Representatives, Arizona Territory Attorney General and district attorney for Pinal County, Arizona. He was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from 1881 to 1885. He died from throat cancer.