HISTORY MINUTE

James Hinds had come to Arkansas with high hopes after the Civil War. However, the congressman only found tragedy as he was assassinated in 1868.

Hinds was born in Hebron, New York, in 1833, the youngest of six children. He attended college in Albany before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1850s. He moved back east to Ohio where he earned a law degree from Cincinnati Law College, one of the few laws schools in the nation in the 1850s.

By 1856, he had settled in Minnesota where he started a successful law practice. He was soon appointed district attorney for the large expanse of southern Minnesota. After three years in the position, he won appointment as the U. S. Attorney for the state.

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