Joseph H. Acklen
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 3rd district |
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In office February 20, 1878 – March 4, 1881 |
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| Preceded by | Chester Bidwell Darrall |
| Succeeded by | Chester Bidwell Darrall |
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| Born | May 20, 1850 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Died | September 28, 1938 (aged 88) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Resting place | Mount Olivet Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Parents | Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen Adelicia Acklen |
| Relatives | William Hayes Ackland (brother) |
| Residence | Belmont Mansion |
| Alma mater | Burlington Military College École de Neuilly Swiss University Cumberland School of Law |
| Occupation | Planter Politician |
Joseph Hayes Acklen (May 20, 1850 – September 28, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Joseph Hayes Acklen was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Adelicia and Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen, a wealthy couple whose summer home was located in Nashville, while he also grew up on plantations in Louisiana. He had a brother, William Hayes Ackland. During the American Civil War, his parents sided with the Confederacy, and the father fled to the family's Louisiana plantation, where he died in 1863.
He was educated by private tutors. He attended Burlington Military College, near Burlington, New Jersey, in 1864 and 1865, and graduated from two foreign institutions (École de Neuilly, Paris, and Swiss University, Vevey). He returned to the United States and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1871.
He began practicing law in Nashville and later practiced in Memphis, Tennessee, but abandoned the practice of law and moved to Louisiana to superintend the family's sugar plantations near Pattersonville (now Patterson) in Saint Mary Parish.
He served as colonel in the Louisiana Militia in 1876. In November of that year, claiming voting fraud, he and other Democrats objected to the reelection of Republican Chester Bidwell Darrall to represent Louisiana's 3rd congressional district; after protracted settlement of the various controversies surrounding the 1876 presidential election, on February 20, 1878, Darrall left the seat and was replaced by Acklen, for the remaining half of the Forty-fifth Congress. Acklen was reelected, to the Forty-sixth Congress, and served from 20 February 1878 to 4 March 1881. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880, and Darrall regained the seat for one term (the Forty-seventh Congress).
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