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Baltimore; member of the Virginia State Convention of 1861. He was elected to the thirty-seventh congress from Virginia as a Unionist (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863), and elected to the thirty-eighth congress from West Virginia ; took his seat Decem- ber 7, 1863, and served until March 3, 1865. He died at Kingwood, West Virginia, April 19, 1884.

Browne, Thomas Henry Bayly, born at Acconiac, Virginia, February 8, 1844; at- tended Hanover and Bloomtield academies in Virginia, leaving the latter in May, 1861 : volunteered as a private in Company F, Thirty-ninth Regiment Virginia Infftutry; -nfterwards served as a private in Chew's battery of the Stuart horse artillery ; was surrendered with the Army of Northern ^'^irginia in April, 1865 ; was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia in 1867; '" ^^73 elected attorney for Accomac county, presidential elector on the Blaine ticket in 1884, and elected as a Republican to the fiftieth and fifty-first con- gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891) ; died at Accomac, Virginia. August 27, 1892. He was a son of Peter F. Browne and Sally Cropper Bayly, and was descended from William Browne, of James City county, who died in 1773-1776.

Buchanan, John Alexander, (q. v.;.

Cabell, George Craighead, born in Dan- ville, Virginia. January 25, 1836, son of Joseph Cabell and his second wife, Anne Everard Boiling attended the Danville Academy, and the law school of the Univer- sity of Virginia in 1857; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Dan- ville in 1858; edited the Republican, and

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later the Democratic "Appeal" in Danville ; elected, in September, 1858, commonwealth attorney for Danville, and served until April 23. 1861, when he volunteered as a private soldier in the Confederate army ; commis- sioned major in June, 1861, and assigned tc the Eighteenth Virginia Infantry ; at the close of the war held the rank of colonel ; after the war resumed the practice of law ; elected as a Democrat to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty- eighth and forty-ninth congresses (March 4. 1875-March 3, 18S7) ; resumed the prac- tice of law in Danville, Virginia. His father was the son of Col. Joseph Cabell and Mary Hopkins, his wife, and grandson of the im- migrant Dr. William Cabell and Elizabeth llurks. his wife.

Carlile, John S., ( q. v.).

Carlin, Charles Creighton, born in Alex- andria, Virginia, April 8, 1866; attended the public schools and was graduated from the National Law University; served for years as postmaster : presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1904 ; elected as a Democrat to the sixtieth congress, Novem- ber 5, 1907, to fill vacancy caused by the death of John F. Rixey ; was re-elected to the sixty-first congress, and served from December 2, 1907, to March 3, 191 1 ; re- elected to the sixty-second, sixty-third and sixty-fourth congresses.

Critcher, John, born in Westmoreland ccunty. Virginia, March 11, 1820; was grad- uated from the University of Virginia in 1839 : studied at the University of France for three years ; studied law and practiced ; elected to the state senate and to the state convention of 1861 ; lieutenant-colonel of