| 词条 | Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett |
| 释义 |
| name = Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett | image name = MuscoeRHGarnett.jpg | office1 = Member of the Confederate States House of Representatives from Virginia's 1st congressional district | term_start1 = February 18, 1862 | term_end1 = February 14, 1864 | predecessor1 = Position established | successor1 = Robert Latane Montague | state2 = Virginia | district2 = 1st | party = Democratic | term_start2 = December 1, 1856 | term_end2 = March 3, 1861 | preceded2 = Thomas H. Bayly | succeeded2 = Joseph E. Segar | office3 = Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Essex and King and Queen Counties | term3 = 1854–1857 | predecessor3 = Richard Muse | successor3 = Thomas W. Garrett | birth_date = {{birth date|1821|07|25}} | birth_place = Elmwood, Loretto, Virginia | death_date = {{death date and age|1864|2|14|1821|07|25}} | death_place = Elmwood, Loretto, Virginia | death_cause = Typhoid fever | resting_place = Elmwood, Loretto, Virginia | spouse = {{marriage|Mary Picton Stevens |July 26, 1860|1864|reason=his death}} | children = 2 | relations = James M. Garnett (grandfather) Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (uncle) | occupation = Attorney | alma_mater = University of Virginia }} Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (July 25, 1821 – February 14, 1864), was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Early lifeGarnett was born on his family’s "Elmwood" estate located near Loretto, Virginia. He was the son of James Mercer Garnett and Maria (née Hunter) Garnett. He was the grandson of James M. Garnett and nephew of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter. He attended the University of Virginia, where he received his law degree in 1842. Garnett was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1842, and set up practice, as his father had done, in Loretto.[1] CareerHe was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1850 and 1851 where he opposed expansion of the electorate, fearing internal improvements that would benefit western counties.[2] In 1850, he wrote a pamphlet The Union, Past and Future; how it works and how to save it. By a Citizen of Virginia, which discussed the relationship of slavery to the national government.[3] Prior to his election to Congress, he was a Virginia delegate to both the 1852 and 1856 Democratic National Conventions, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (from 1853–1856), and a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia (from 1855–1859). In 1856, Garnett was elected as a Democrat from Virginia's 1st Congressional District to the 34th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. Bayly. He was subsequently reelected to both the 35th and 36th Congresses, serving from December 1, 1856, to March 3, 1861, only leaving at the outbreak of the Civil War. With his sympathies lying with the South, he became a delegate to first the Virginia secession convention and then to the State constitutional convention in 1861. From 1862–1864, he was a Virginian member of the First Confederate Congress. During that same time, his uncle Robert Hunter was the CSA Secretary of State and then a CSA Senator. Personal lifeHe was married on July 26, 1860, to Mary Picton Stevens (1840-1903), a daughter of Edwin Augustus Stevens. They had two children before his early death:[4]
While attending the Confederate Congress in early 1864, Muscoe caught typhoid fever , and subsequently died at his family's "Elmwood" estate on February 14, 1864, where he was buried in the family cemetery. After his death, his widow married Edward Parke Custis Lewis, a diplomat, who was a descendant of George Washington. "Elmwood" was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.[5] Elections
References1. ^{{cite web|title=GARNETT, Muscoe Russell Hunter - Biographical Information|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000076|website=bioguide.congress.gov|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=23 September 2017}} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Dinan|first1=John|title=The Virginia state constitution : a reference guide|date=2006|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=0-313-33208-8|page=8}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Majewski|first1=John D.|title=Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation|date=2009|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=9780807832516|page=206|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7362UaSaH0YC&pg=PA206|accessdate=23 September 2017|language=en}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=Lee|first1=Francis Bazley|title=Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ...|date=1910|publisher=Lewis historical Publishing Company|page=205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZE-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205|accessdate=23 September 2017|language=en}} 5. ^{{NRISref|version=2010a}} External links{{Appletons' Poster|year=1900|Garnett, James Mercer|Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett}}{{CongBio|G000076}}{{s-start}}{{s-par|cs-hs}}{{succession box | before=Position established | title= Member of the Confederate House of Representativesfrom Virginia's 1st Congressional District | years=1862–1864 | after = Robert Latane Montague}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{USRepSuccessionBox | state=Virginia | district=1 | before=Thomas H. Bayly | after= Joseph Segar | years=1856–1861 }}{{s-end}}{{bioguide}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Garnett, Muscoe Russell Hunter}} 14 : 1821 births|1864 deaths|Members of the Virginia House of Delegates|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia|Virginia lawyers|University of Virginia School of Law alumni|Virginia Secession Delegates of 1861|Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Virginia|Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives|Virginia Democrats|People from Essex County, Virginia|Deaths from typhoid fever|Infectious disease deaths in Virginia|19th-century American politicians |
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