Draft:Elijah D. Ham

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Elijah D. Ham (1839 - ?) was a lawyer, officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, district attorney, judge and state legislator in Arkansas and a lawyer and judge in Napa County, California. He represented the 1st District. He was a circuit judge in Arkansas beginning in 1868.

He was born in Alabama. His family moved to Arkansas in 1854.

He joined the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served on the staff of commanding officers and then commanded scouts and rose to the rank of major. He became a Major in the First Arkansas Infantry during the American Civil War.

After the war he was a lawyer and Reconstruction era official in Huntsville, Arkansas.

He succeeded John Berry in the Arkansas Senate.

Whether he was involved in the Huntsville massacre is unclear.

Gave testimony in 1873 election in Arkansas.

He moved to the Napa area in California in 1874 and worked as a lawyer. He was elected as a Superior Judge for Napa County in 1890 and re-elected to the position in 1896 after his first term. He was a Republican. He married and had three daughters.