James Lyons (politician)
James Lyons (born October 12, 1801 in Hanover County , Virginia , † December 18, 1882 in Richmond , Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician for both the United States and the Confederate States .
Career
James Lyons, son of Sarah Spotswood Waugh (1775-1835) and James Lyons (1762-1830), was born in Hanover County. Nothing is known about his youth. He studied at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg ( James City County ) Jura and started after receiving practicing in Richmond qualifying as a lawyer 1818th The British-American War had ended three years earlier . During the visit of the Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834) in Virginia in 1824 he was responsible for the modalities. Between 1839 and 1843 he represented Charles City Counties , James City Counties, New Kent Counties, and Henrico Counties, and the city of Richmond in the Virginia Senate . He served in the Virginia House of Representatives from 1845 to 1846 . His time in the General Assembly was overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the Mexican-American War in the following years . He was a delegate to the Virginia Constituent Assembly between 1850 and 1851 . On November 6, 1861, he was elected to the First Confederate Congress for the third constituency of Virginia , where he served from February 18, 1862 to February 17, 1864. He was appointed first instance judge ( trial judge ) for political prisoners in 1864. After the end of the Civil War , he resumed his practice as a lawyer in his office and helped defend Confederate President Jefferson Davis (1808-1889). He died in Richmond in 1882 and was buried there in Hollywood Cemetery .
family
Lyons was married twice. He married first Heningham H. Watkins (1799-1851), daughter of Joseph and Mary Carrington Watkins. The couple had eight children: Josephine (* 1822), James junior (1824–1840), Heningham Watkins (* 1827), Sallie Nivision (* 1828), William Henry (* around 1831), Edward C. (1836–1853) , Peter (1838–1881) and Mary P. (* around 1839). After the death of his first wife, he married Imogen Byrd Penn (1834-1901).
Trivia
His estate west of Richmond, Virginia was called Laburnum.
Letters
- Johnson, Andrew: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866 , University of Tennessee Press, 1991, ISBN 9780870496899 , pp. 97f.
- Library of Congress - Letter to HA Wise from James Lyons, October 20, 1852
Web links
- James Lyons in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- James Lyons on The Political Graveyard website
- James Lyons on the latrobefamily.com website
- James Lyons on the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill website
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33
- ↑ James Lyons Junior in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ^ Edward C. Lyons in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ Heningham H. Watkins Lyons in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ↑ Imogen Byrd Penn Lyons in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 11, 2015.
- ^ Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller: Two Novels , University of Virginia Press, 2002, ISBN 9780813920580 , p. 62
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SURNAME | Lyons, James |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1801 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover County , Virginia |
DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1882 |
Place of death | Richmond , Virginia |