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LUBBOCK, Francis Richard, proremor of Texas, was born in Beaufort, S.C., Oct. 16, 1815 ; son of Dr. Henry Thomas Willis and Susan (Saltus) Lubbock and grandson of Captain Rich- ard and Diana Sophie (Sandwich) Lubbock and

of Captain Francis Saltus of Port Royal, S.C. Both grand- fathers were English. He was employed as a clerk at Charleston, 1829-32, and at Ham- burg, S.C, 1832-34; and engaged in the drug business in New Orleans, La., in 1834. He was married Feb. 5, 1835, to Adele Baron, a French Cre- ole. In January, 1837, he settled in Houston , Texas, and was one of the first to build a home there. He was clerk of the congress of the Republic of Texas, 1837-38 ; comptroller, 1838 ; and adjutant in the Texan army in the protection of the fron- tier, 1839. He removed to Austin, the new seat of government, where he was comptroller in 1841, and district clerk of Harris county, 1841-56. He was secretary of the first Democratic state con- -vention, 1845, and a Democratic presidential elec- tor in 1856. He was lieutenant-governor of Texas, 1857-59 ; was a delegate to the Charleston and Bal- timore Democratic national conventions in 1860 and governor of Texas, 1861-63. During his term he aided the Confederate States in its struggle for independence. He refused re-nomination in 1863, and entered the Confederate army as lieutenant- colonel and assistant adjutant-general in the Trans-Mississippi department, commanded by Gen. E. Kirby Smith. He served with Gen. John A. Wharton, commanding the entire cavalry in the Red river campaign until its close, when he was appointed to the staff of President Davis with the rank of colonel of cavalry in July, 1864. He went to Richmond, Va., with President Davis, and was captured with his chief and imprisoned in Fort Monroe, and was removed to Fort Delaware, where he remained in solitary confinement nearly eight months. He returned to Houston, Texas, in December, 1865, engaged in business in 1867 at Galveston, and established a beef-packing house at Anahuac. He was tax-collector at Galveston, 1873-76; president of the New York and Texas Beef Preserving company, 1874-75 ; was treasurer of Texas, 1878-90, and during his office improved the financial standing of the state. He was a member of the board of pardon advisers and of the Confederate home. His first wife died in

1882 and in 1883 he was married to Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (Black) Porter, daughter of the Hon. James Augustus and Elizjibeth Sarah (Logan) Black, and widow of the Rev. Dr. A. A. Porter, a Presbyterian clergyman. See Six Decades in Texat^ or Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock (1990).

LUCAS, Daniel Bedinger, jurist, was born in Charlestown, Va., March 16, 1836 ; son of William and Virginia (Bedinger) Lucas, and descended from Robert Lucas, General Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1683. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1856, and from the law department of Washington college, Lexington, in 1858. He practised in Charles- town, 1858-60, and in Richmond, 1860-61. In 1861 he was appointed on the staff of Gen. Henry A. Wise, and at the close of the war returned to Charlestown and resumed the practice of law. He was married, Oct. 7, 1869. to Lena T., daugh- ter of Henry L. Brooke, of Richmond, Va. He was a presidential elector on the Grant ticket in 1872, on the Tilden ticket in 1876, on the Cleve- land ticket in 1884, and on the Bryan ticket in 1896, and was a representative in the West Vir- ginia legislature, 1884-86. In March, 1887, on the failure of the legislature to elect a U.S. sena- tor as successor to J. M. Camden, Gov. E. Willis Wilson appointed Mr. Lucas to the vacancy, and in 1888, when the legislature elected Charles J. Faulkner to complete the term, Governor Wilson appointed him president of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia, and he held the office until 1893, when he returned to his practice. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of West Virginia in 1883. He is the author of : Memoir of John Yates Bell (1865) ; Tlie Wreath of Eglantine and other Poems (1869); The Maid of Northumberland (1879); Ballads and Madrigals (1884); Nicaragua and the Filibusters (189^)).

LUCAS, John Baptiste Charles, representa- tive, was born in Normandy, France, in 1762. He was graduated from the University of Caen, D.C.L., in 1782, and practised law in France. In 1784 he settled on a farm near Pittsburg. Pa. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1792-98 ; judge of the court of common pleas, 1794-1802, and a representative in the 8th con- gress, 1803-05. He was re-elected to the 9th con- gress in 1804, but resigned in 1805 before taking his seat> in order to accept the appointment of judge of the U.S. district court for the Territory of Louisiana from President Jefferson. He re- moved to St. Louis, the capital, and the name of the territory was changed to Missouri in 1812 on the admission of Louisiana as a state. He also served as a member of the commission for the adjustment of land titles. 1805-12, and continued on the bench of the U.S. district court until 1820. He died in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 8, 1842.