Granville Henderson Oury
| Granville Henderson Oury | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona Territory's At-large district |
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In office March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1885 Delegate |
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| Preceded by | John G. Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Curtis C. Bean |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 12, 1825 Abingdon, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | January 11, 1891 (aged 65) Tucson, Arizona Territory, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Profession | Politician, Lawyer, Judge, Miner |
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| Allegiance |
 Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 Confederate States Army
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| Rank |
 Captain
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Granville Henderson Oury (March 12, 1825 – January 11, 1891) was a nineteenth-century American politician, lawyer, judge, soldier and miner.
Born in Abingdon, Virginia, Oury and his family moved to Bowling Green, Missouri in 1836 where he pursued in academic studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. That year, he moved to San Antonio, Texas and in 1849 to Marysville, California where he engaged in mining. He then moved to Tucson in 1856 and began a law practice and was appointed a district judge for New Mexico Territory in Mesilla. Oury was involved in the infamous Crabb Massacre of April 1857, during which no more than 100 Americans were killed after an eight-day battle with Mexican forces at Caborca, Sonora. The Americans were under the command of General Henry A. Crabb, a former California senator, who was allegedly trying to take over Sonora like the filibuster William Walker. Oury was one of the men General Crabb had recruited in Tucson, and he was given the rank of captain and ordered to follow the general into Mexico after recruiting more men. However, when news reached Tucson that a superior force of Mexicans was besieging Crabb's expedition, Major R. N. Wood and Captain Oury were sent across the international border to help their compatriots. Just after crossing the border, the rescue party encountered about 200 Mexicans. A skirmish ensued which forced the Americans back across the border into Arizona. There were no casualties on the Americans' side. Of the Crabb party, all were killed except a fourteen-year-old boy and possibly one other man depending on varying sources.
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