Charles Triplett "Trip" O'Ferrall was a Virginian politician who served as a U.S. Representative from 1883 to 1894 and as the 42nd Governor of Virginia from 1894 to 1898.
Thomas Goode Jones was an Alabama lawyer,politician,and military officer. He served in the Alabama legislature and as Governor of Alabama. He later became United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
William Mahone was an American civil engineer,railroad executive,Confederate States Army general,and Virginia politician.
Eppa Hunton II was a Virginia lawyer and soldier who rose to become a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. After the war,he served as a Democrat in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate from Virginia.
The Readjuster Party was a bi-racial state-level political party formed in Virginia across party lines in the late 1870s during the turbulent period following the Reconstruction era that sought to reduce outstanding debt owed by the state. Readjusters aspired "to break the power of wealth and established privilege" among the planter elite of white men in the state and to promote public education. The party's program attracted support among both white people and African-Americans.
Otelia Butler Mahone from Smithfield,Virginia was a nurse during the American Civil War and the wife of Confederate Major General William Mahone,who was a civil engineer,teacher,railroad builder,and Senator in the United States Congress. Popularly known in Virginia as the "Hero of the Battle of the Crater" during and after the Civil War,her small-of-stature husband was nicknamed "Little Billy." An illustrious "character" in her own right,strong-willed Otelia Butler Mahone became almost as well known as her famous husband. She is credited by local legend with the naming of the towns of Windsor,Ivor,Wakefield,Waverly and Disputanta along the famous 52-mile tangent railroad tracks engineered and built by her husband between the cities of Suffolk and Petersburg. When he led the formation of the Atlantic,Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O) from three trunk lines across the southern tier of Virginia in 1870,wags claimed the initials stood for "All Mine and Otelia's."
William Evelyn Cameron was a Confederate soldier who became a Virginia lawyer,journalist,and politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Virginia from 1882–1886,elected as the candidate of the Readjuster Party headed by William Mahone.
John Warwick Daniel was an American lawyer,author,and Democratic politician from Lynchburg,Virginia who promoted the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Daniel served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and both houses of the United States Congress. He represented Virginia the U.S. House from 1885 to 1887,and in the U.S. Senate from 1887 until his death in 1910.
Harrison Holt Riddleberger was a Virginia lawyer,newspaper editor and politician from Shenandoah County. A Confederate States Army officer who at various times aligned with the Conservative Party of Virginia,the Readjuster Party and the Democratic Party,Riddleberger served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,which elected him for one term as U.S. Senator.
John Randolph Tucker was an American lawyer,author,and politician from Virginia. From a distinguished family,he was elected Virginia's attorney general in 1857 and after re-election served during the American Civil War. After a pardon and Congressional Reconstruction,Tucker was elected as U.S. Congressman (1875-1887),and later served as the first dean of the Washington and Lee University Law School.
Waller Redd Staples was a Virginia lawyer,slave-owner and politician who was briefly a member of the Virginia General Assembly before the American Civil War,became a Congressman serving the Confederate States of America during the war,and after receiving a pardon at the war's end became a judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals,and law professor at Washington and Lee University,as well as revisor of Virginia's laws (1884-1887).
William T. Joynes was a Virginia lawyer,railroad president,politician and judge,who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia Court of Appeals.
Edward Calohill Burks was a Virginia lawyer,legislator and jurist,as well as a relative of several other Virginia lawyers or legislators representing Bedford County. He served as a judge on the Supreme Court of Virginia from January 9,1877 through December 31,1882.
Benjamin Watkins Lacy was an American politician and Virginia lawyer,Confederate officer and jurist.
Thomas Turner Fauntleroy was a Virginia attorney,politician,slaver,and judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
James Buchanan Richmond was a nineteenth-century politician,lawyer,judge and banker from Virginia.
John Paul was a United States representative from Virginia and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
Robert Murphy Mayo was a Virginia lawyer,Confederate officer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and briefly in the U.S. Representative as a member of the Readjuster Party.
The 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment mostly raised in Petersburg,Virginia,for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War,but with units from the cities of Norfolk and Richmond,and Greensville and Brunswick counties in southeastern Virginia. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.
John Strode Barbour Jr. was a slave owner,U.S. Representative and a Senator from Virginia,and fought against the United States in the Confederate Army. He took power in Virginia from the short-lived Readjuster Party in the late 1880s,forming the first political machine of "Conservative Democrats",whose power was to last 80 years until the demise of the Byrd Organization in the late 1960s.
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