OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart

BORN:
April 2, 1807
Staunton, Virginia

DIED:
February 13, 1891 (age 83)
Staunton, Virginia

EDUCATION:
College of William and Mary
University of Virginia (1828)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Whig

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1828:
Admitted to the Bar.
Began Practicing Law in Staunton, Virginia 
1836-1839:
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
1841-1843:
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia
1850-1853:
U.S. Secretary of the Interior 
1857-1861:
Member of the Virginia Senate
1861:
Member of the Virginia Secession Convention 
1865:
Elected to the House of Representatives,
Was not seated when House refused to seat legislators from the former Confederacy 
1870:
Chairman of the  committee of nine, which restored Virginia to the Union
1874-1877:
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates 
1874-1882:
Rector of the University of Virginia 

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
Encyclopedia of Virginia
University of Virginia
Wikipedia

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