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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

cember 2, 1822, until March 3, 1825 ; died in Martinsburg, West Virginia, August 7,

1833.

Stevenson, Andrew, born in Culpeper county, \'irginia. in 1784, son of Rev. James Stevenson and Frances Arnet Littlepage, bis wife; pursued classical studies; studied law. admitted to the bar, began practice in Richmond, Virginia, and won a prominent place in his profession ; member of the state house of representatives, 1804-1820, where for several sessions he was speaker, gaining thereby the experience which made him so able a presiding officer while in the national house: elected as a Democrat to the eighteenth, and to the five succeeding con- gresses, and served from March 4, 1823, until his resignation. June 2, 1834; served a.- speaker. 1827- 1834, his occupancy of the speaker's chair covering the stormy times of the contest over the re-charter of the United States Bank, and even in the greatest heat of partisan strife no accusation was ever made against his fairness and impartiality; was sent as minister to the Court of St. James in 1836, and remained until 1841 ; he then devoted himself to agricultural pur- suits, and to the interests of the University of Virginia, of which he was rector at the time of his death, which occurred at "Blen- heim," in Albemarle county, Virginia, Janu- ary 25, 1857. He was a nephew of Gen. Lewis Littlepage (q. v.).

Stratton, John, native of Accomac county, Virginia; attended the common schools; elected to the seventh congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803).

Strother, George F., born in Culpeper county, Virginia ; completed preparatory

studies; studied law, admitted to the bar, and began practice in Culpeper; elected as a Democrat to the fifteenth and sixteenth congresses, and served from March 4, 18 17, until his resignation, February 10, 1820 ; re- ceiver of public moneys in St. Louis, Mis- souri. He was a son of French Strother and his wife Lucy, daughter of Robert Cole- man. French Strother, who was a mem- ber of the convention which met in Wil- liamsburg in May, 1776, served thirty years in the assembly and was a member of the convention of 1788, voting against the adop- tion of the constitution (q. v., vol. ii, p. 333 J.

Strother, James French, born in Culpeper county, \'irginia, September 4, 181 1, son of James French Strother and Sally Wil- liams, his wife, daughter of Gen. James Williams ; completed preparatory studies and attended St. Louis University; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Culpeper, Virginia; member of the state house of delegates and served as speaker ; delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1850; elected as a Whig to the thirty-second congress (March 4, 185 1- March 3, 1853) ; died in Culpeper, Virginia, September 21, i860.

Stuart, Alexander Hugh Holmes, born in Staunton, Virginia, April 2, 1807, son of Judge Archibald Stuart, a graduate of Wil- liam and Mary College; Alexander H. H. Stuart, after having been prepared for a university course, went to William and Mary College for a year, and then attended the University of Virginia, where he took the law course, graduated at the age of twenty-one, and was admitted to practice at the bar the same year : was in successful practice in Staunton when, in 1836, he was

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