James Henderson Blount (September 12, 1837-March 8, 1903), an
American statesman, was born near Clinton, Jones County,
Georgia. He attended private schools there and in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama. He was graduated from the University of Georgia at
Athens in 1858. He studied law and was admitted to the Georgia
bar in 1859. During the American Civil War he served in the
Confederate States Army as a private in the Second Georgia
Battalion, Floyd Rifles for two years, and was later lieutenant
colonel for two years. Blount served in the United States
Congress representing the sixth district of Georgia from 1873 to
1893. He was Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign
Relations (1891-1893). He was appointed by President of the
United States Grover Cleveland to be the United States
Department of State Minister to Hawai'i with the mission of
investigating the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai'i and the
administration of Queen Lili'uokalani. The report he issued is
known as the Blount Report. Blount died in Macon, Bibb Cou