Mark Harden Blandford | |
Office: | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia |
Term Start: | 1883 |
Term End: | 1890 |
Predecessor: | Martin J. Crawford |
Successor: | Samuel Lumpkin |
Appointer: | Henry Dickerson McDaniel |
Office1: | Member of the Confederate House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd district |
Term Start1: | May 2, 1864 |
Term End1: | March 18, 1865 |
Predecessor1: | Porter Ingram |
Successor1: | Constituency abolished |
Birth Name: | Mark Harden Blandford |
Birth Date: | 13 July 1826 |
Birth Place: | Warren County, Georgia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Columbus, Georgia, U.S. |
Restingplace: | Linwood Cemetery |
Mark Harden Blandford (July 13, 1826 – January 31, 1902) was an American soldier, attorney, politician, and judge. He was a Member of the Confederate House of Representatives during the American Civil War.
Mark Blandford was born in Warren County, Georgia. He served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and in the Confederate States Army (12th Georgia Infantry Regiment) during the early part of the American Civil War. He represented Georgia in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.[1]
After the war, he served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1883 to 1890.[2] He died in Columbus, Georgia, January 31, 1902, and is buried in Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, Georgia.