Julian Hartridge

Julian Hartridge (September 29, 1829 – January 8, 1879) was an American politician. He was born in Beaufort County, South Carolina and graduated from Brown University in 1848 and Harvard Law School in 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced law in Savannah, Georgia. He served as the Solicitor of the Eastern District of Georgia from 1854 to 1858.

Hartridge was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives 1858 to 1859. He represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress. After the war he returned to politics, and was elected as a Democrat to the 44th and 45th US Congresses, serving from 1875 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1879.

Julian Hartridge in The Guns of the South
Julian Hartridge was Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederate States in the administration of President Robert E. Lee. He reported that reparations from the United States had allowed the Confederacy to pay off most of its war debt from the Second American Revolution.