John White Brockenbrough
John White Brockenbrough (born December 23, 1806 in Richmond , Virginia , † February 20, 1877 in Lexington , Virginia) was an American lawyer and politician of the Confederate States .
Career
John White Brockenbrough, son of Judith Robinson White and William Brockenbrough, studied law at Winchester Law School under Henry St. George Tucker . After his admission to the bar, he embarked on a legal career. Brockenbrough was a public prosecutor (English Commonwealth's Attorney ) for Hanover County . He was appointed federal judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in 1846 , a position he held until 1860. During this time he founded Lexington Law School in 1849 and was elected to the Board of Trustees of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University ) in 1852 .
Brockenbrough was a proponent of slavery , which led him to be politically active. In this context, he represented Virginia in 1861 as a delegate in the Provisional Confederate Congress and in the first and second Confederate Congresses . As a result, US President Abraham Lincoln nominated John Jay Jackson Jr. as federal judge to replace Brockenbrough. He then worked as a judge only in the western part of Virginia, which belonged to the Confederate States.
After the end of the Civil War Brockenbrough resumed his work at Lexington Law School. The following year, Robert Edward Lee , President of Washington College, led him to merge Lexington Law School with Washington College and continue teaching as a professor of law and equity . Brockenbrough resigned in 1873 on the basis of pay disputes from his position.
family
John White Brockenbrough married Mary Colston Bowyer in Rockbridge County , Virginia in 1835 . The couple had seven children together:
- Willoughbty Newton Brockenbrough (born October 4, 1842 in Lexington, Virginia, † January 10, 1919 in Hallsville , Missouri )
- Colonel John Bowyer Brockenbrough (born April 6, 1836, in Lexington, Virginia, † November 15, 1901 in Baltimore , Maryland )
- William Brockenbrough (born February 10, 1838)
- Edward Colston Brockenbrough (born January 31, 1841)
- Louisa Gardner Brockenbrough (born October 30, 1844)
- Robert Lewis Brockenbrough (born October 13, 1846 in Lexington, Virginia, † April 26, 1886 in Brunswick , Missouri)
- Frances Henry Brockenbrough (born September 22, 1850)
His sister was Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire , who wrote the Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, By a Lady of Virginia . He was the cousin of William Henry Brockenbrough .
Web links
- John White Brockenbrough in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- John White Brockenbrough on the Family Tree Maker website
- John White Brockenbrough on the Federal Judicial Center website
- John White Brockenbrough on the Washington and Lee University School of Law website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brockenbrough, John White |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Richmond , Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1877 |
| Place of death | Lexington , Virginia |