Guy Morrison Bryan

Guy Morrison Bryan (January 12, 1821 – June 4, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.

Bryan was born in Herculaneum, Missouri on January 12, 1821. His family moved to the Mexican State of Texas in 1831, and settled near San Felipe. The extended Bryan family later settled in Brazoria County, and hismparents operated a sugar plantation called Peach Point. Guy Bryan attended the private school of Thomas Pilgrim in Columbia, Texas, joined the Texas Army in 1836, and took part in the Texas Revolution.

In 1842 Bryan graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He studied law, but never practiced, instead becoming a sugar planter in Brazoria County. His college classmates included Rutherford B. Hayes, and Hayes visited Bryan at his plantation in 1848.

Bryan served in the Mexican-American War as a private in the Brazoria company commanded by Captain Samuel Ballowe. From 1847 to 1853 Bryan served in the Texas House of Representatives, and he served in Texas State Senate from 1853 to 1857. He was a delegate to the 1856 Democratic National Convention. Bryan was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1858. He served as chairman of the Texas delegation to the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore.

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