Edwin Augustus Keeble

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Edwin Augustus Keeble (born February 14, 1807 in Cumberland County , Virginia , † August 26, 1868 in Murfreesboro , Tennessee ) was an American politician . The presidential candidate John Bell (1797–1869) was his father-in-law.

Career

Edwin Augustus Keeble was born in Cumberland County about five years before the outbreak of the British-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. At some point he moved to Tennessee and settled in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County . Between 1838 and 1855 he was mayor there. His tenure was overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the subsequent Mexican-American War . He then sat from 1861 to 1862 in the Tennessee House of Representatives , where he held the post as speaker . In the election in November 1861 in the sixth constituency of Tennessee for the first Confederate Congress , he suffered a defeat. He received 8% of the vote, taking third place. In the election on August 6, 1863 in the same constituency, he was elected to the second Confederate Congress. He defeated Philip Gaspard Stiver Perkins (1818-1881) with 11,631 to 950 votes. In the election that was held among the soldiers, the result was 4,620 to 770 votes. At this point the following should be noted: At the time of the election, the constituency was occupied by Union troops and the civil vote took place among the refugees. Keeble took his seat in 1864 and held it until the end of the Confederation in 1865. He was an ardent supporter of the administration of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889). He voted for higher taxes, which did not affect his electorate, and for tougher conscription laws, in which no men were drafted from his district. Keeble died in Murfreesboro about three years after the civil war ended . He was then interred in Keeble Cemetery in Rutherford County, but reburied in Mt. Juliet Cemetery in Wilson County in 1967 .

His son, John Bell Keeble (1868-1929), was a Nashville district attorney and then dean of Vanderbilt Law School between 1915 and 1929 . His grandson, Edwin Augustus Keeble (1905–1979), was a well-known architect in Nashville.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philip Gaspard Stiver Perkins in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  2. ^ Martis, Kenneth: The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861–1865, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994
  3. ^ McPherson, James M .: Battle Cry of Freedom, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
  4. ^ John Bell Keeble Sr. in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  5. ^ Edwin Augustus Keeble in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  6. ↑ Edwin Augustus Keeble on The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture website

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SURNAME Keeble, Edwin Augustus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Cumberland County , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1868
Place of death Murfreesboro , Tennessee