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About Albert Rust
Albert Rust was an American politician and slaveholder, who served as a delegate from Arkansas to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative from Arkansas's 2nd congressional district (1859–1861). He also served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.
Everything about Albert Rust →- Occupation
- planter class
- Position held
- member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, speaker, United States representative, United States representative
- Citizenship
- United States, Confederate States of America, United States
- Born
- 1818
- Died
- April 4, 1870