Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett

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Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (1859)

Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (born July 25, 1821 in Loretto , Essex County , Virginia , †  February 14, 1864 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1856 and 1861 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives ; then he was a member of the Confederate Congress .

Career

Muscoe Garnett was the grandson of Congressman James M. Garnett (1770-1843) and nephew of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809-1887), who represented the state of Virginia in both houses of Congress . He was born and home- schooled on the Elmwood family estate near Loretto. He then studied until 1839 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville literature. After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1842, he began to work in this profession in Loretto. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1850 and 1851, he attended meetings to revise the Virginia Constitution. In 1852 and 1856 Garnett was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions , at which Franklin Pierce and later James Buchanan were nominated as presidential candidates. Between 1853 and 1856 he was a member of the Virginia House of Representatives .

After the death of Congressman Thomas H. Bayly , Garnett was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the first seat of Virginia , where he took up his new mandate on December 1, 1856. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1861. His time there was shaped by the increasing tension in the run-up to the civil war . Garnett joined the secessionist movement and in 1861 was a delegate at the meeting at which the withdrawal of the state of Virginia from the Union was decided. Between 1862 and 1864 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States . He died on 14 February 1864 the family estate Elmwood to typhoid .

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SURNAME Garnett, Muscoe Russell Hunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH near Loretto , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1864
Place of death near Loretto , Virginia