Elias Cornelius Boudinot was an American politician, lawyer, newspaper editor, and co-founder of the Arkansan who served as the delegate to the Confederate States House of Representatives representing the Cherokee Nation. Prior to this he served as an officer of the Confederate States Army in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. He was the first Native American lawyer permitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Occupation
- lawyer, army officer, politician
- Citizenship
- United States, Cherokee Nation
- Born
- August 1, 1835
- Died
- September 27, 1890
