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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaEdward Carrington CABELL
(1816-1896)
CABELL, Edward Carrington,
a Representative from Florida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5,
1816; attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee
University), Lexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833 and Reynolds’
Classical Academy in 1833 and 1834; was graduated from the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1836; moved to Florida
in 1837 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Tallahassee;
delegate to the Territorial convention to form a State constitution
in 1838; returned to Virginia; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1840; returned to Tallahassee, Fla.; upon the admission of
Florida as a State into the Union presented credentials as a
Member-elect to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from October
6, 1845, to January 24, 1846, when he was succeeded by William H.
Brockenbrough, who contested the election; elected as a Whig to the
Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4,
1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public
Buildings (Thirtieth-Congress); unsuccessful candidate in 1852 for
reelection to the Thirty-third Congress; resumed the practice of
law in Tallahassee; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1859; during the
Civil War served in the Confederate Army with rank of lieutenant
colonel; engaged in the practice of law in New York City 1868-1872,
and subsequently in St. Louis, Mo.; member of the State senate of
Missouri 1878-1882; died in St. Louis, Mo., February 28, 1896;
interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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