Dudley McIver DuBose (October 28, 1834 – March 2, 1883) was an American lawyer, Confederate field officer and politician.

The family's DuBose ancestors were Protestant Huguenots from France who had immigrated to South Carolina, settling in the midlands, where A.B.C.

She was the last surviving child of United States Senator Robert Toombs, a lawyer, planter, and slaveholder from Wilkes County, Georgia.

Admitted to the bar in 1857, Dudley DuBose began his private legal practice in Memphis, Tennessee.

DuBose had a law practice in the former state capitol on the Savannah River near the South Carolina border.

DuBose volunteered to fight in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, rising as an officer after being commissioned as a lieutenant in the 15th Georgia Infantry Regiment.

At the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, his regiment participated in Hood's attack on the Union III Corps, fighting at Devil's Den.

On April 6, 1865, as the war was nearly ended and while still serving in Kershaw's division, DuBose was among many Confederates captured during the Battle of Sailor's Creek, days before Major General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.

He became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics, and was a statewide leader after the Reconstruction era, aided by his powerful father-in-law, Robert Toombs.

After his return in 1867, he resumed his legal practice and began to regain political power, although he never applied for a presidential pardon (as did other former Confederate statesmen).

Former Confederate leaders were temporarily prohibited from voting or holding office, but Toombs ultimately led the state's Democrats, with the aid of longtime friend Alexander H. Stevens, who became governor of Georgia, and his son-in-law DuBose.

[5] Following controversy concerning Confederate veteran Stephen A. Corker of Burke County, mostly white Georgians elected DuBose in 1870 as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress.