Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Nicaragua)
In office April 18, 1853 – April 17, 1854
President
Franklin Pierce
Preceded by
John B. Kerr
Succeeded by
John H. Wheeler
United States Senator from Arkansas
In office April 24, 1848 – March 3, 1853
Preceded by
Ambrose Hundley Sevier
Succeeded by
Robert Ward Johnson
Personal details
Born
(1808-09-21)September 21, 1808 Nansemond County, Virginia, U.S.
Died
January 1, 1864(1864-01-01) (aged 55) Harris County, Texas, C.S.
Resting place
Old City Cemetery, Houston, Texas, U.S. 29°46′06.5″N95°22′04.6″W / 29.768472°N 95.367944°W / 29.768472; -95.367944
Political party
Democratic
Spouses
Hildah Wright
(m. 1831; died 1837)
Eliza Buck Hart
(m. 1839; died 1842)
Mary Isabel Melbourne
(m. 1845)
Education
Louisville Medical Institute (MD)
Military service
Allegiance
United States Confederate States
Service
United States Volunteers
Confederate States Army
Years of service
1846–1847 (U.S.)
1861–1862 (C.S.)
Rank
Major (U.S.)
Colonel (C.S.)
Commands
Company B, Arkansas Mounted Infantry Regiment (July 1846)
3d Arkansas Cavalry Regiment (1861–62)
Battles
Mexican–American War (POW)
Battle of Churubusco
Battle of Chapultepec
Battle for Mexico City
American Civil War
Trans-Mississippi Theater
Monuments
Borland Memorial Marker, Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas
Solon Borland (September 21, 1808 – January 1, 1864) was an American physician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1848 to 1853. In later life, he served as an officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded a cavalry regiment in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.
SolonBorland (September 21, 1808 – January 1, 1864) was an American physician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1848 to 1853....
ratification of the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[citation needed] "SolonBorland (1811–1864) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas". www.encyclopediaofarkansas...
Rock, Arkansas on June 10, 1861, by former senator and soldier SolonBorland. Borland, who was at the time serving as a state militia commander for Northern...
Cuba. Pierce appointed expansionists John Y. Mason of Virginia and SolonBorland of Arkansas as ministers, respectively, to France and Nicaragua. Pierce's...
Hempstead Adjutant General of Arkansas 1845–1846 Succeeded by Colonel SolonBorland Legal offices Preceded by Hulbert F. Fairchild Associate Justice of...
Raynal Bolling (1877–1918), first high-ranking U.S. Army casualty in WWI SolonBorland (1808–1864), Confederate Brigadier General Maurice "Footsie" Britt (1919–1995)...
established: 1898 First ambassador: SolonBorland/Mirabeau B. Lamar Relations ended: — Notes: Ambassador Borland was commissioned to Costa Rica but never...
(1791–1848), US Senator W. Jasper Blackburn (1820–1899), US Congressman SolonBorland (1811–1864), physician and US Senator Elias Nelson Conway (1812–1892)...
Belize before the treaty. The American representative in Nicaragua, SolonBorland, considered the treaty breached and argued openly for the US annexation...
legislature to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired term of Senator SolonBorland. In 1855, he was elected by the legislature to the seat, serving the...
camp and he quickly organized a militia battalion under the command of SolonBorland. The militia was dispatched to seize the Federal Arsenal at Fort Smith...
kidnapping of the American Minister to Central America, SolonBorland, at the US consulate. Borland had been accused of preventing the arrest of a US citizen...
the nomination of his successor specified that he was being removed. SolonBorland was nominated and confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 1853, but declined...
November 30, 1849 ▌3. William R. King (D) ▌2. William K. Sebastian (D) ▌3. SolonBorland (D) ▌1. John C. Frémont (D), from September 10, 1850 (newly admitted...
from May 12, 1848 ▌3. Ambrose H. Sevier (D), until March 15, 1848 ▌SolonBorland (D), from March 30, 1848 ▌1. Jabez W. Huntington (W), until November...
the United States Commissioned to Central America; resident at Managua. Borland did not present credentials in Costa Rica Commissioned to "the Central...
under Chief Musician Joseph A. Schaer – into a battalion under Colonel SolonBorland. Since Arkansas had not yet seceded from the Union, the expedition to...
Appointer The President with Senate advice and consent Inaugural holder SolonBorland as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Formation 1850s...
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