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Newport News is an independent city in Virginia,United States. At the 2020 census,the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region,it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United States.
Hampton is an independent city in Virginia,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 137,148. It is the 7th-most populous city in Virginia and 204th-most populous city in the nation. Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area,the 37th-largest in the United States,with a total population of 1,799,674 in 2020. This area,known as "America's First Region",also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake,Virginia Beach,Newport News,Norfolk,Portsmouth,and Suffolk,as well as other smaller cities,counties,and towns of Hampton Roads.
Raphael Semmes was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Until then,he had been a serving officer in the US Navy from 1826 to 1860.
CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. It was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool,England by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a successful commerce raider,attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career. She was sunk in June 1864 by USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg,France.
Paul Jones Semmes was a banker,businessman,and a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War,mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.
USS Semmes (DD-189/AG-24) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first Navy ship named for Commander (USN),Rear Admiral (CSN),Brigadier General (CSA) Raphael Semmes (1809–1877).
Herbert Harvell "Herb" Bateman was an American politician in Virginia. He was a nine-term member of the United States House of Representatives,serving as a Republican from 1983 until his death from natural causes in Leesburg,Virginia in 2000.
Thomas Jenkins Semmes was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Louisiana from 1862 to 1865. He was once described as "the most distinguished statesman and brilliant lawyer of the south." He was the 9th president of the American Bar Association 1886-1887.
Jesse Johnson Finley was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida,following the reconstruction era. He also served as mayor of Memphis,Tennessee;an volunteer officer in the United States Army during the Second Seminole War;a member of the Arkansas Senate;a member of the Florida Senate;and a Circuit Court Judge in Florida.
Thomas Semmes Walmsley was the mayor of New Orleans,Louisiana from July 1929 to June 1936. He is best known for his intense rivalry,reconciliation,and then resumption of hostilities with Governor Huey Pierce Long,Jr.
Semmes is a city in western Mobile County,Alabama,in the Mobile metropolitan area. It was incorporated in 2011. As of the 2020 census,the population was 4,941.
George Weissinger Smith (1864-1931) was mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from 1917 to 1921. His maternal grandfather,George Weissinger,published the Louisville Journal during the controversial tenure of George D. Prentice.
Albert G. Semmes was an American lawyer in the states of Georgia and Florida. He was a member of the Whig Party,elected as a delegate to the 1838 Florida Constitutional Convention and was appointed by the Florida Legislature to the Florida Supreme Court where he served from 1851 to 1853. He then moved to New Orleans.
The Department of Virginia and North Carolina was a United States Military department encompassing Union-occupied territory in the Confederate States during the Civil War. In 1863 it was formed by the merging of two previously existing departments:the Department of Virginia and the Department of North Carolina. In 1865 the two departments were once again separated.
Benedict Joseph Semmes Jr. was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in World War II and the Cold War,command of destroyers,a lengthy tour as Chief of Naval Personnel,command of the United States Second Fleet,duty as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations,and a tour as President of the Naval War College.
Peter Alexander Selkirk McGlashan was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. Promoted to the rank of brigadier in April 1865,he was the last appointed general of the Confederacy.
Leslie Atchinson Thompson was a lawyer,author of works on legal subjects,politician,and judge. He was city clerk,treasurer,and mayor of Tallahassee. He also served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Florida from 1851 to 1853.
John Anthony Gardner Davis was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who was shot to death by a student of the university.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Newport News,Virginia,United States.
Semmes is a surname. Notable people with it include:
References
- Newman, Harry Wright (2009). The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families: A Genealogical History of Marmaduke Semme(s), Gent., and His Descendants, Including the Allied Families of Greene, Simpson, Boarman, Matthews, Thompson, Middleton, and Neale. Heritage Books. p. 102. ISBN 9780788423086.
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