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1807; completed preparatory studies; stud- ied law, was admitted to the bar, and prac- ticed ; held several local offices ; elected as a Democrat to the twenty-ninth congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); unsuccess- ful candidate for reelection; judge of the circuit court of Virginia; member of the secession convention of Virginia in 1861 ; resumed the practice of law in Chatham, Virginia, and died there, May i, 1896.

Trezvant, James, a native of Siissex coun- ty. Virginia; completed preparatory stud- ies; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Jerusalem, Virginia; attorney-general of Virginia; delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1820; served in the state house of representatives ; elected to the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first congresses (March 4, 1825- March 3. 1831) ; died in Southampton coun- ty, Virginia, September 2, 1841.

Trigg, Abram, born in Bedford county, Virginia, son of Abraham Trigg, who emi- grated from Cornwall, England, about 1710; completed academic studies: held local ortices ; delegate to the Virginia convention of 1788 that ratified the Federal constitu- tion : served as an officer under Gen. Wash- ington in the revolutionary war; elected to the fifth, and to the five succeeding con- gresses (March 4. 1797-March 3, 1809): died in Washington, D. C, May 17, 1804. He had three brothers — Stephen, who went to Kentucky, as member of the land com- mission in 1779. and fell commanding a regiment in the battle of Blue Licks; John (q. v.) : and William, from whom was de- scended Hon. Connally Findlay Trigg, member of congress (q. v.) and William Robertson Trigg, late of Richmond.

Trigg, John, born in Bedford county, V^ir- ginia, in 1748, son of Colonel Abram Trigg; received a liberal schooling; served as a captain in the Virginia militia during the revolutionary war; member Virginia house of delegates, 1784-1792; member of the con- vention to ratify the Federal constitution in 1788; elected to the fifth, and to the three succeeding congresses, and served from March 4, 1797, until his death in Bedford county, Virginia, June 28, 1804.

Tucker, George, born in the town of St. George's, Bermuda, August 20, 1775; de- scended from George Tucker of Milton-next- Gravesend; came to Virginia about 1787; was graduated from William and Mary Col- lege in 1797; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Lynchburg, Virginia ; member of the state house of rep- resentatives in 1815; elected as a Democrat to the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1825) ; professor in the University 'of Virginia, 1825-1845; died at "Sherwood," Albemarle county, Virginia, April 10, 1861.

Tucker, Henry St. George (q. v. under "Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals").

Walker, Francis, son of Dr. Thomas Walker (q. v.) and Mildred Thornton, his wife, widow of Nicholas Meriwether, was born at **Castle Hill," Albemarle county, June 22, 1764, was a magistrate of his coun- ty, colonel of the Eighty-eighth Regiment of Virginia militia, member of the house of delegates and of the third congress of the United States (March 4. 1793-March 3, 1795). He married Jane Byrd, daughter of Gen. Hugh Nelson, and granddaughter of William Nelson, president of the Virginia council. His children were: Jane Frances,

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