Robert Latane Montague

Robert Latané Montague (born May 23, 1819 in Middlesex County , Virginia , † March 2, 1880 in Saluda , Virginia) was a prominent politician and lawyer from the US state of Virginia, who held a seat in the Confederate States Congress during the Civil War and Was Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

Life

Robert Latané Montague was born in Middlesex County in 1819 to Lewis Brook Montague (1793–1868) and Catherine Street Jesse. After attending Fleetwood Academy , he received his legal license in 1842 from the College of William & Mary . Around this time he acquired a large plantation near Saluda, where he built his home, which he named Inglewood . During the election campaigns for the future US President James K. Polk in 1844 , he took part in his campaign tour of Virginia. Montague married Cordelia Gay Eubank on December 14, 1852.

He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1850 and 1852 for the Democrats . In 1852 he served as chief prosecutor in Middlesex County, in 1853 and 1857 he was an elector in the presidential election. Montague served as the fourth lieutenant governor of Virginia during the American Civil War from 1860 to 1864. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, Montague had called for Virginia's secession from the Union.

He also represented his hometown as a member of the House of Representatives in the Second Confederate Congress from 1863 to 1865. During the war he was one of the executive advisors in the drafting of the Confederate troops in Virginia and the appointment of officers. In the course of the 1870s, like many other leading conservatives ( Robert M. T. Hunter , Henry A. Wise , John Letcher ), he lost political influence in Virginia as a layer of young Conservatives who had actively served during the war advanced. From 1875 to 1880 Montague was a judge at the Courthouse for the Eighth District of Justice.

The Baptist Robert Latané Montague died at the age of 60 of complications from a wound rose . His son Andrew Jackson Montague would later serve as governor of Virginia from 1902 to 1906 .

In addition, Montague was the great-uncle of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, through his niece Alice Montague (1869-1929) .

Web links

• Robert Latane Montague, 1819-1880 . On: www.montaguemillennium.com. Accessed November 6, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Robert Latane Montague, 1819–1880 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: www.montaguemillennium.com. Accessed November 6, 2012. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Montagues in Virginia . On: shissem.com. Accessed November 6, 2012.
3. ↑ politicalgraveyard.com . Accessed November 6, 2012.