Solon Borland (September 21, 1811 - January 1, 1864) was a newspaperman, soldier, diplomat, Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. Borland was born in Suffolk, Virginia. When he was a youth, his family moved to North Carolina, where he attended preparatory schools. He later studied medicine and opened a practice. In 1843, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, … Wikipedia
Bibliography American National Biography ; Dictionary of American Biography ; Woods, James M. Expansionism as Diplomacy: The Career of Solon Borland in Central America 1853-1854. bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000642/
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1811 - Solon Borland was born in Suffolk, Nansemond County, Virginia, 8 August 1811 - the third son of Dr. Thomas Wood Borland and wife Harriott Godwin. www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm
