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Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, (q. v.).

Johnson, James, son of Col. Philip John- son, of York county ; studied at William and Mary College about 1795; represented Isle o»* Wight county in house of burgesses; elected as a Republican to the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth con- gresses, and served from March 4, 1813, until February i. 1820, when he resigned to become customs collector of Norfolk ; died in Norfolk, Virginia, December 7, 1825.

Johnston, Charles C, born in Abingdon, Virginia, in 1795; received a liberal school- ing: studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Abingdon, Virginia ; elected to the twenty-second congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833) I died in Alexandria, \'irginia, June 17, 1832.

Jones, James, born in Amelia (now Not- toway ) county, Virginia, December 11, 1772; attended Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, the Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. Scotland, in 1796; returned to Amelia county, and practiced medicine and engaged in planting; several times a member of the state house of dtlegates; privy councillor of \'irginia four consecutive terms : a presidential elector ; de- feated candidate for the fifteenth congress, to fill a vacancy: elected as a Republican to the sixteenth and seventeenth congresses (March 4. 1819-March 3, 1823) : died at his ei^tate "Mountain Hall." Nottoway county, \'irginia, April 25. 1848.

Jones, John Winston, son of Alexander Jones and Mary Anne Winston, his wife, was born in Chesterfield county, Virginia. November 22. 1791 ; was a scholar at Wil-

liam and Mary College in 1803; elected as a Democrat to the twenty-fourth, and to the four succeeding congresses (March 4, i835-March 3, 1845) i speaker of tlie House of Representatives in the twenty-eighth con- gress ; declined a re-election ; died in Peters- burg. Virginia, January 29, 1848. He was a grandson of Col. John Jones, of Amelia county, and Elizabeth Crawley, his wife. Peter Jones, founder of Petersburg, was of the same family. (See William and Mary College Quarterly, XIX., 287).

Jones, Joseph (q. v.).

Jones, Walter (q. v.).

Kerr, John, born in Caswell county, North Carolina, August 4, 1782; attended common schools, studied theology and was licensed as a Baptist minister in 1802; located in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1805 ; elected to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817) ; resumed the ministry, and was pastor of the Baptist churches of Arbor and Mary Creek; moved to Richmond, Virginia, in March, 1825, and v.as pastor of the First Baptist Church : re- signed in 1832: located on a farm near Dan- ville, Virginia, in 1836. and died there Sep- tember 29, 1842.

Kidwell, Zedekiah, born in Fairfax county, Virginia, January 4, 1814; received a liberal schooling; studied medicine and was graduated from Jefferson Medical Col- lege. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and practiced in Fairfax county, Virginia, 1839-1849; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849; moved to Fairmont, Vir- ginia; member of the house of delegates; delegate in the state constitutional conven- tion of 1850; presidential elector on the

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