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ceeding congresses. In 1859 he was appointed minister to France by President Buchanan. He returned at the outbreak of the civil war, in 1861. and was taken and held as a pris- oner of war, but in December of the same year was exchanged for Congressman Ely, of New York. During the war he was a member of the staf? of Gen. "Stonewair' Jackson. After the war he was engaged in various railroad enterprises. He was a member of the West Virginia constitutional convention in 1872, and was elected from that state, as a Democrat, to the forty- fourth congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877 1. He died in Boydville. West Virginia. November i, 1884.

Flournoy, Thomas Stanhope, born in iVince Edward county, Virginia. December 15. 181 1 ; attended the public schools: stud- ied law, was admitted to the bar. and began practice in Halifax, Virginia; elected as a Whig to the thirtieth congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849) ; defeated for the thir- ty-first congress; entered the Confederate army and was wounded in battle in Vir- ginia in June, 1864; died March 13, 1883.

Floyd, John (q. v.).

Fulton, Andrew S., born in Augusta coun- ty, September, 1800; elected as a W^hig to congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849) J circuit judge till death, November, 1884.

Fulton, John H., born in Augusta county ; served in legislature, 1823-32; elected as a Whig to twenty-third congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835) ; d^^d in Abingdon, Virginia, January 28, 1836.

Garland, David S., was born in 1769 and resided in Amherst county, Virginia; pur- sued an academic course; studied law;

served several terms in the Virginia legis- lature and was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States House of Representatives to fill a vacancy caused by ihe resignation of Wilson Cary Nicholas, and served from January 17, 1810, to March 3, 181 1. He died in 1841, aged seventy-two. He was a son of William Garland (born 1746; died in Staunton in 1777), and Anne Shepherd, daughter of Christopher Shep- herd, and grandson of James Garland, of Albemarle county. He married, in 1795, Jane Henry Meredith, a daughter ot Col. Samuel Meredith and his second wife, Jane Henry, a sister of Patrick Henry, the orator.

Garland, James, born in Nelson county, X'irginia, June 6, 1791 : pursued preparatory studies ; studied law. was admitted to the bar and began practice in Lovingston, Vir- ginia; served in the house of delegates in 1829: elected as a Democrat to the twenty- fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth con- gresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1841); moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, and was judge of the corporation court of that city for nineteen years ; again elected to the state legislature in 1876; died in Lynchburg, Vir- ginia, August 8, 1885. He was a son of Hudson M. Garland, Sr., who was a lawyer, member of the house of delegates, 1805-1806, and captain in the war of 181 2 ; and a grand- son of James Garland, Jr., of Albemarle county. He was a brother of Gen. John Garland, of the U. S. A., whose daughter was the wife of General Longstreet.

Gametty James Mercer, born at "Elm- wood," Essex county, Virginia, June 8, 1770; son of Muscoe Garnett and Grace Fen- ton Mercer, daughter of John Mercer; pur- sued an academic course; served several

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