| 词条 | John Wilkins Whitfield |
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|name= John Wilkins Whitfield |birth_date= {{birth date|1818|3|11}} |death_date= {{Death date and age|1879|10|27|1818|3|11}} |image= John Wilkins Whitfield.jpg |caption= John Wilkins Whitfield |nickname= |birth_place= Franklin, Tennessee |death_place= Hallettsville, Texas |placeofburial= Hallettsville, Texas |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |allegiance= {{flag|United States|1847}} {{flagicon|CSA}} Confederate States of America |branch= United States Army {{army|CSA}} |serviceyears= 1846 1861–1865 |rank= Lieutenant Colonel Brigadier general |unit= |commands= 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment Whitfield's Brigade |battles= Mexican–American War American Civil War |awards= |relations= |laterwork= U.S. Congressman }}John Wilkins Whitfield (March 11, 1818 – October 27, 1879) was a territorial delegate to the United States Congress representing the Kansas Territory from 1854 until 1856. He was an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, being commissioned as a brigadier general on May 9, 1863.[1] BiographyWhitfield was born in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee. He served in the Mexican–American War as a lieutenant colonel in 1846. He moved to Independence, Missouri, in 1853 to serve as Indian agent to the Pottawatomies at Westport, Missouri, and to the Arkansas Indians in 1855 and 1856. Upon the admission of the Territory of Kansas to representation was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress and served from December 20, 1854, to March 3, 1855; presented credentials as a delegate-elect to the Thirty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1855, to August 1, 1856, when the seat was declared vacant; again elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the action of the House of Representatives in declaring the seat vacant and served from December 9, 1856, to March 3, 1857; register of the land office at Doniphan, Kansas, 1857–1861. Whitfield served as captain of the 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment at the start of the civil war in 1861, commanded the unit as Colonel in 1862 and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1863. He settled in Lavaca County, Texas, after the war and engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising and served in the Texas House of Representatives. He died in Hallettsville, Texas, in 1879, where he is buried. See also{{portal|Biography|United States Army|American Civil War}}
Notes1. ^Political Graveyard web site bio }} References{{CongBio|W000414}} Retrieved on 2008-02-13
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