Description:Chapters: Robert William Hughes, John L. Brownlee, John Paul, Jr., Thomas Mason, George W. Thompson, Joseph Crockett Shaffer, Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert William Hughes (January 16, 1821 - December 10, 1901) was a Virginia newspaperman, lawyer, and federal judge. Born at Muddy Creek Plantation in Powhatan County, Virginia, Hughes was of an old Virginia family, whose ancestors came to the area of Powhatan County before 1700, when it was still Goochland County. He attended Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, North Carolina, then studied law in Fincastle, Virginia. In 1850, at the Governor's mansion, Hughes married Joseph E. Johnston's niece, Eliza M. Johnston, who was the adopted daughter of then-Governor John B. Floyd. Hughes practiced law in Richmond from 1846-1853. Among his acquaintances in Richmond was Edgar Allan Poe. Hughes's son, Robert M. Hughes, was a distinguished Virginia lawyer, and one of the early presidents of the Virginia Bar Association. From 1850 to 1866, he contributed to a series of newspapers in Richmond and Washington, D.C., primarily the Richmond Examiner. He took over as editor of the Examiner when the regular editor, John M. Daniel, left the country as U.S. Minister to Sardinia. In connection with the statewide elections of 1855, Hughes editorialized against the Know Nothing movement in Virginia, pointing out that Yankees and abolitionists, not immigrants and Roman Catholics, were the true threats to the Southern way of life. "Why are Northern Abolitionists and Know Nothings persecuting and proscribing foreigners and Catholics?" he wrote. "It is because they have always refused to join with them in their outcry against slavery and the South." In 1857, Hughes left Richmond at the invitatio...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1339328We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with United States Attorneys for the Western District of Virginia: Robert William Hughes, John L. Brownlee, John Paul, JR., Thomas Mason. To get started finding United States Attorneys for the Western District of Virginia: Robert William Hughes, John L. Brownlee, John Paul, JR., Thomas Mason, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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United States Attorneys for the Western District of Virginia: Robert William Hughes, John L. Brownlee, John Paul, JR., Thomas Mason
Description: Chapters: Robert William Hughes, John L. Brownlee, John Paul, Jr., Thomas Mason, George W. Thompson, Joseph Crockett Shaffer, Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert William Hughes (January 16, 1821 - December 10, 1901) was a Virginia newspaperman, lawyer, and federal judge. Born at Muddy Creek Plantation in Powhatan County, Virginia, Hughes was of an old Virginia family, whose ancestors came to the area of Powhatan County before 1700, when it was still Goochland County. He attended Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, North Carolina, then studied law in Fincastle, Virginia. In 1850, at the Governor's mansion, Hughes married Joseph E. Johnston's niece, Eliza M. Johnston, who was the adopted daughter of then-Governor John B. Floyd. Hughes practiced law in Richmond from 1846-1853. Among his acquaintances in Richmond was Edgar Allan Poe. Hughes's son, Robert M. Hughes, was a distinguished Virginia lawyer, and one of the early presidents of the Virginia Bar Association. From 1850 to 1866, he contributed to a series of newspapers in Richmond and Washington, D.C., primarily the Richmond Examiner. He took over as editor of the Examiner when the regular editor, John M. Daniel, left the country as U.S. Minister to Sardinia. In connection with the statewide elections of 1855, Hughes editorialized against the Know Nothing movement in Virginia, pointing out that Yankees and abolitionists, not immigrants and Roman Catholics, were the true threats to the Southern way of life. "Why are Northern Abolitionists and Know Nothings persecuting and proscribing foreigners and Catholics?" he wrote. "It is because they have always refused to join with them in their outcry against slavery and the South." In 1857, Hughes left Richmond at the invitatio...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1339328We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with United States Attorneys for the Western District of Virginia: Robert William Hughes, John L. Brownlee, John Paul, JR., Thomas Mason. To get started finding United States Attorneys for the Western District of Virginia: Robert William Hughes, John L. Brownlee, John Paul, JR., Thomas Mason, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.