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fourth congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897) ; again elected to the state senate in 1899; '^"'^1 finally elected judge of the four- teenth judicial circuit of the state for a term of eight years and re-elected in 1912 for another term. lie is a man of much culture, a judge whom the supreme court has sel- dom reversed, is a fluent conversationalist and eloquent speaker. On June 6, 1894, he married Mary Morris Jones, daughter of James Alfred Jones, a prominent lawyer of Richmond. He resides at his father's for- mer residence "Sherwood Forest," Charles City county, Virginia. He is the author of various notable addresses — one of them es- pecially on his old commander, Gen. Robert E. Lee, delivered at William and Mary Col- lege, has been much commended.

Upton, Charles Horace, born at Belfast, Maine, August 23, 1812; was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834; moved to Falls Church, Virginia ; held several local offices ; elected as a Republican to the thir- ty-seventh congress (March 4, 1861-March 3 1863) ; United States consul to Geneva. Switzerland ; died in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 1877.

Venable, Edward Carrington, Imrn at "Long Wood," Prince Edward county, Vir- ginia, January 31, 1853, son of Samuel Woodson \'enable, a leading tobacco manu- facturer, and Elizabeth Travis Carrington, his wife. He was educated at the private school taught by John E. Christian, and at W. Gordon McCabe's university school in Petersburg, Virginia. In 1869 he entered the University of \'irginia, and graduated from several of its academic schools in 187 1. He then taught school for three years in Petersburg, in the school which subse- quently became a part of the Tulane Uni-

versity of Louisiana, the presidency of which he subsequently declined. After spending the winter of 1875 '" Europe, he engaged in tobacco manufacturing, and carried on an extensive business until 1901, when the establishment was sokl to the Continental Tobacco Company. He pre- sented credentials as a member-elect to the fifty-first congress, and served from March 4, 1889, to September 23, 1890, when he was succeeded by John M. Langston, who con- tested his election. He was for years chair- man of the Democratic party for the Peters- burg district ; and was president of the Chamber of Commerce of Petersburg. He married Helen Skipwith Wilmer, daughter 01 Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana.

Waddill, Edmund, Jr., born in Charles City county, \ irginia. May 22, 1855, son of Edmund Waddill, clerk of Charles City county from 1856 to 1887; deputy clerk of the courts of Charles City, New Kent, Han- over and Henrico counties, and of the cir- cuit court of the city of Richmond ; studied law. was admitted to the bar in 1877, and entered upon practice in Richmond in 1878; judge of the county court of Henrico in 1880; resigned this office in 1883 to accept the office of United States attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, which position he filled until 1885 ; a representative in the state legislature, 1885-1889; Republican nominee for congress in 1886, and defeated ; elected as a Republican to the fifty-first con- gress (March 4, 1889-March 3, lOoi) : ap- pointed United States judge for the eastern district of Virginia, March 22, 1898, which position he still holds.

Walker, Gilbert C, (q. v.).

Walker, James A., (q. v.).