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state from October 7, 181 7, to January 5, 1820. when he was appointed to the United States senate to fill vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Walter Leaks. He was subsequently elected senator, and served from August 30. 1820, to September 25, 1825. when he resigned. He returned to Winchester, Virginia, in 1827, and died at Jordon's Sulphur Springs, Virginia, August 20, 1832.

Hopkins, George Washington, born in Goochland county, Virginia, February 22, 1804: attended the common schools; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Lebanon, Virginia; member of the house of delegates, 1833-1834; elected as a Democrat to the twenty-fourth and to the five succeeding congresses (March 4, 1835- March 3, 1847) ; charge d'affaires to Por- tugal, March 3, 1847, to October 18, 1849; again a member of the house of delegates in 1849; judge of the circuit court; elected to the thirty-fifth congress (March 4, 1857- March 3, 1859) ; again elected to the house of delegates ; died March 2, 1861.

Hubard, Edmund Willcox, son of Dr.

James Thruston Hubard and Susanna Will- cox, his wife, was born February 20, 1806; was elected as a Democrat to the twcmy- seventh, twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses (March 4, 1841-March 4, 1847) > married Sarah Eppes; died December 9, 1S72.

Hungcrford, John Pratt, born in Leeds, Westmoreland county, Virginia, January 2, 1761 ; received a thorough English training; served in the revolutionary war ; member of the house of delegates for several terms; presented credentials as a Democratic Re- publican to the twelfth congress, and served

from March 4, 181 1, to December 2, 181 1, when he was succeeded by John Taliaferro, who contested his election; elected to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses (March 4. 1813-March 3, 1817) ; served in the war of 1812 as brigadier-general of militia; died at Twiford. Westmoreland county, Virginia, l^ecember 21, 1833.

Jackson, Edward B., native of Clarksburg, Harrison county, West Virginia : pursued an academic course in the Clarksburg Male Academy ; studied medicine and commenced practice in Clarksburg; elected to the six- teenth congress, to' fill vacancy caused by the resignation of James Tindall ; re-elected to the seventeenth congress, and served from November 30, 1820, to March 3, 1823; died in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Septem- ber 8, 1826.

Jackson, George, a representative from \'irginia, served in the fifth congress.

Jackson, John George, born in Clarksburg, Harrison county, Virginia, in 1774; received an English training, and became a civil en- gineer ; appointed surveyor of public lands of what is now the state of Ohio in 1793; member of the Virginia house of delegates. 1797-1801 ; elected as a Republican to the eighth, and to the three succeeding con- gresses, and served from March 4, 1803, until 1810, when he resigned; again state representative, 1811-1812; chosen brigadier- general of militia ; re-elected as a Democrat to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817) ; declined a re-election to the fifteenth congress; ap- pointed United States district judge for the western district of Virginia in 1819, and served until his death in Clarksburg, Vir- ginia, March 29, 1825.

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