Jeremiah Watkins Clapp

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Jeremiah Watkins Clapp (born September 24, 1814 in Abingdon , Virginia , † September 5, 1898 in Memphis , Tennessee ) was an American lawyer and Confederate politician .

Career

Jeremiah Watkins Clapp was born in Washington County, Virginia , during the British-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. Eventually he moved to Mississippi and settled in Holly Springs ( Marshall County down). He studied law and practiced there after receiving his license as a lawyer in his own law firm. His nephew, Earl Clapp Bronaugh senior (1831-1899), who later became a judge, studied law there with him and was admitted to the bar in 1851. Clapp married Evalina Donoho Lucas (1824–1907) during that time. The couple had at least two children: Climmie Lucas (1844-1904) and Jeremiah Watkins junior (1852-1923). In the following years he worked as a judge. In 1861 he took part as a delegate to the Mississippi Secession Convention, where he voted for his state's secession. In November 1861 he was elected to the First Confederate Congress for the first constituency of Mississippi , where he served from February 18, 1862 to February 17, 1864. After the end of the Civil War , he sold his property, moved to Tennessee and settled in Memphis, Shelby County , where he died in 1898. He was buried there in Elmwood Cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Earl Clapp Bronaugh senior in the database of Find a Grave (English)
  2. ↑ Evalina Donoho Lucas Clapp in the Find a Grave database (English)
  3. ↑ Climmie Lucas Clapp McCrosky in the Find a Grave database (English)
  4. ↑ Jeremiah Watkins Clapp junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)
  5. ↑ a b Jeremiah Watkins Clapp on the rustcollege.edu website
  6. ^ Jeremiah Watkins Clapp on the msgw.org website
  7. ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33

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personal data
SURNAME Clapp, Jeremiah Watkins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and Confederate politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Abingdon , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1898
Place of death Memphis , Tennessee