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legislature. He then engaged in sugar planting in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was elected to the state legisla- ture of Louisiana, in 1853. The next year he took a legal course at Harvard College, and in 1859 started for Italy, intending to enlist with Garibaldi in his struggles for independence. On his arrival, the war being over, he made the tour of Europe, and re- turned home, where he again served in the state legislature. When Louisiana seceded he enlisted in the Confederate army and was made lieutenant-colonel. He was soon promoted to be colonel of the Fourth l^ouisiana Regiment and military go\ernor (if Jackson, Mississippi. He was wounded at Shiloh and at Baton Rouge, where he commanded a brigade At Vicksburg he did effective service. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1864, and the same year elected governor of Louisiana. In this ca- pacity he organized a route of trade to the Alexican border and exchanged cotton tcr supplies needed in the state, which he sold to the people at moderate prices, besides giving to the poor. He also secured to the planters the right to pay the cotton tax imposed by the Confederate government in kind, and was largely engaged in preventing the manufacture and sale of liquor in the state. After the war he removed to the city of Mexico, and established the "Mexican Times." He died April 22, 1867.

Lewis, David Peter, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, about 1820, son of Peter C. and ^lary Smith (Buster). Lewis, and of \\'elsh and English ancestry: dur'.ig his childhood his parents removed to Manjon county. Alabama, in the schools of which he received an excellent education, after which he studied law in Huntsville, Ala- viR— 10

bama, and later practiced his profession in Lawrence county, which he represented in the state constitutional convention of 1861 ; he voted against secession, but eventually signed the ordinance as passed ; was elected to the Confederate provisional congress, at Montgoinery by the convention, but re- signed his seat ; in 1863 he was appointed judge of the circuit court of Alabama by Gov. Shorter, but after spending several n,onths on the bench, he passed through the army lines and reached Nashville, Tennes- see, where he remained imtil the close of the v.ar; in 1865 he returned to Alabama, set- tled at Huntsville, and resumed the prac- tice of his profession ; was elected governor of Alabama on the Republican ticket, and served in that capacity from 1872 to 1874, inclusive : he died at Huntsville, Alabama, July 3. 1884.

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, (generally known as Be\erley Tucker), born in Win- chester, Virginia, Jtnie 8, 1820, son of Henry St. George Tucker. He was educated at the University of Virginia. In 1853 he founded the Washington "Sentinel," and in the same year was made printer to the sen- ate. He was appointed consul to Liverpool ill 1857, and served as such till 1861. Dur- ing the war he was made secret agent of the Confederate States, and in 1862 was sent by the Confederate government to England and France to obtain supplies, and in 1863- 64 to Canada for a like purpose. He was included by President Johnson in his pro- clamation on the assassination of Lincoln, and a price was set on his head. In reply 'I ucker wrote to Johnson that he had better look nearer home, as the person profiting most by Lincoln's death was Johnson him- self. He went to Mexico, where he remained