Resting place Evergreen Cemetery Role U.S. representative Resigned March 3, 1901 Name Albert Berry | Profession Lawyer Succeeded by Daniel Linn Gooch Political party Democratic Party Democratic Party | |
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Preceded by William Worth Dickerson Born May 13, 1836
Dayton, Kentucky ( 1836-05-13 ) Alma mater Miami University
University of Cincinnati College of Law Allegiance Confederate States of America Died January 6, 1908, Newport, Kentucky, United States Education Miami University, University of Cincinnati College of Law | ||
Battles and wars American Civil War | ||
Albert Seaton Berry (May 13, 1836 – January 6, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Biography
Born in Fairfield (now Dayton), Campbell County, Kentucky, Berry attended the public schools. He graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1855 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law. He served as prosecuting attorney of Newport, Kentucky, in 1859. He served in the Confederate States Marine Corps throughout the Civil War. He served five terms as mayor of Newport, beginning in 1870. He served as member of the Kentucky Senate in 1878 and 1884.
Berry was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1901). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1900.
He resumed the practice of law. He was appointed and subsequently elected judge of the seventeenth judicial district of Kentucky and served from 1905 until his death in Newport, Kentucky, January 6, 1908. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.