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of German ancestry. lie was a student at Emory and Henry College and was within a few months of graduation, when he was obliged to leave, on account of the death of his father. He engaged in school teaching, and was so employed when the civil war broke out. He at once entered the Con- federate service as captain of Company A, Twenty-first Virginia Battalion, was pro- moted to lieutenant-colonel, and later was commissioned colonel of the Sixty-fourth Virginia Regiment, a combined infantry and cavalry command, with which he served with ability to the close of the war. Re- turning home, he engaged in farming, and operating in mining and timber lands. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the house of delegates ; in 1888 was a presidential elec- tor on the Harrison ticket, and in 1889 was a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the ticket with Gen. William Mahone. In 1890 lie was superintendent of the state census. In 1896 he was a presidential elector on the McKinley ticket. He was elected as a Re- publican to the fifty-eighth congress, and re-elected to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses, serving until his death, at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, October 13, 1907. He was regarded as a strong type of ihe business man in politics, as evidenced by his leaving the Democratic party in 1884. to ally himself with the Republicans, by reason of his deep conviction as to the benefits of a protective tarifif. He married, in 186^, Naimie B. Cawood, of Owsley county, Kentucky.

Slemp, Campbell Bascom, born at Turkey Cove, Lee county, Virginia, September 4, 1870; a page in house of delegates of \'ir- ginia, 1881-1882; was graduated from the

\'irginia Militar_\- Institute: commandant of cadets in the Marion Military Institute for one year; adjunct professor of mathematics, \'irginia Military Institute; resigned in I'loi, to enter professional and business life : chairman of the Republican state com- mittee in 1905 ; elected as a Republican to the sixtieth congress, December 17, 1907, to fill vacancy caused by the death of his father, Campbell Slemp ; re-elected to the sixty-first congress, and served from Janu- ary 6, 19(58, to March 3, 191 1 ; re-elected to the sixty-second and to the sixty-third by increasing majority, also to the sixty-fourth congress.

Smith, John Ambler, born at Village View, Virginia, September 23, 1847 ; com- pleted preparatory studies ; studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practice in Richmond, Virginia, in 1867; held several local otifices ; member of the state senate in 1869 ; elected as a Republican to the forty- first congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875) ; resumed the practice of law in Wash- ington, D. C, and died there January 6, 1892.

Southall, Robert Goode, born in .\melia county, Virginia, December 26, 1852, son of Dr. Philip Francis Southall and a descend- ant of D'Arcy Southall, who settled in Hen- rico county, Virginia, about 1720; attended the Washington Academy and high school 01 Amelia county ; deputy clerk of Notto- way county for fourteen years ; was gradu- ated from the law school of the University of Virginia in June, 1876, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in January, 1877 ; delegate to the Democratic conven- tion at St. Louis in 1888 and at Chicago in 189^ ; member of the state house of dele-