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studied law without assistance, and was .-.dniittcd to the bar in 1867. In 1890 he became county judge of Xottoway county, tcrving until 1892, when he resigned. He was an active and effective campaign speak- er, and in 1899 was a member of the Demo- cratic State executive committee ; during the s.\me period he was a state senator, and chairman of the committee on revison of laws of Virginia. He was the author of the "Mann Law." under the operations of which were closed about eight hundred saloons in the country districts where there was no police protection; and he was also patron of the high school bill, passed in 1906. and under which some four hundred and fifty high school buildings have been erected. In 1910 he was elected governor, and his administration proved most notable, especially in giving practical effect to the temperance and public school legislation which he advocated so strenuously during his senatorial service. The termination of h:s term of office did not mean absolute re- tirement, as Gov. Mann has been very ac- tive since that date in making campaign speeches and taking part in public affairs. He resides at his plantation in Nottow.iy county, and is much interested in farming. He married (first) Sallie Fitzgerald, who died November 2, 1882. and (second) at Petersburg. Etta, daughter of Hon. Alex- ander and Anna Wilson Donnan.

Stuart. Henry Carter, born at Wytheville, Wythe county, \irginia, January 18, 1855, son of William Alexander Stuart and Mary Taylor (Carter) Stuart, his wife. His father was desccn<led from Archibald Stuart, who was of Scotch descent, but who came directly from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1726, first

settled in Pennsylvania, and in 1732, in Au- gusta county, Virginia. His son, Alexander Stuart, was a major in the revolutionary war, and had a son Alexander Stuart, who was a lawyer of ability and was territorial judge of Missouri by appointment of Presi- dent Jefferson. The latter's son, Archibald Stuart, was a member of congress and of the conventions of 1829-30 and of 1850-51. He married Elizabeth Letcher and had six children, of whom Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, of Confederate fame, was one, and Willian; Alexander Stuart, father of the subject of this sketch, was another. William Alex- ander Stuart was prominently engaged in manufacturing and general business and ac- tjiiired a large fortune.

Henry Carter Stuart wa.s so unfortunate as to lose his mother at the age of seven years, but he had the care of kind friends and a devoted father. His life was passed mainly in the country, where he was re- ouired by his father to acquaint himself with all kinds of manual labor and was not al- lowed to be idle, .\fter an attendance of several years upon private schools, he enter- ed Emory and Henry College from which i.f graduated in 1874 with the degree of A. 1>. He then took a course of law at the l.niversity of Virginia for one year, after which he began the active work of life, in 1875, as assistant to his father. .\s a promi- nent stock raiser, president of the Stuart Land and Cattle Company, president of the Citizens' National l')ank, president of Buck- horn Iron and Improvement Company, and vice-president of the Prudential Fire Insur- ance Company, he has been deeply engrossed in the development of the southwest, and has acquired by his own unaided efforts very large interests in lands and cattle, besides