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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Virginia / West VirginiaFAULKNER, Charles James
(1806—1884)
FAULKNER, Charles James, (father of Charles James Faulkner [1847-1929]), a Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia; born in Martinsburg, Va. (now West Virginia), July 6, 1806; was graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1822; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and practiced; member of the Virginia house of delegates 1829-1834, 1848, and 1849; commissioner of Virginia on the disputed boundaries between that State and Maryland; member of the State senate from 1838 to 1842, when he resigned; member of the State constitutional convention in 1850; elected from Virginia as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress and as a Democrat to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-fifth Congress); appointed United States Minister to France by President Buchanan in 1859; returned to the United States in August 1861 and was detained as a prisoner of state on charges of negotiating arms sales for the Confederacy while in Paris; released in December 1861 and negotiated his own exchange for Alfred Ely, a Congressman from New York who had been taken prisoner by the Confederates at Bull Run; during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army and was assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson; engaged in railroad enterprises; member of the State constitutional convention of West Virginia in 1872; elected as a Democrat from West Virginia to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); resumed the practice of law; died on the family estate, “Boydville,” near Martinsburg, W.Va., November 1, 1884; interment in the family lot on the estate.
Bibliography
McVeigh, Donald R. “Charles James Faulkner: Reluctant Rebel.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University, 1955.
Democratic Party. Virginia. Berkeley Co. Proceedings of a public dinner given at Martinsburg, by the Democracy of Berkeley County, state of Virginia, to the Hon. Charles James Faulkner, Representative from the Tenth Congressional District, December 16, 1852
. Washington: Printed by L. Towers, 1853.
Faulkner, Charles James. Address delivered by Chas. Jas. Faulkner, Esq
. [Lexington?, Va.: N.p., 1850].
———. Address of Mr. Faulkner, of Virginia
. Washington: C. Wendell, printer, 1857.
———. Masonic address
. Washington: Printed by L. Towers, 1853.
———. National politics
. Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, [1853].
———. The speech of Charles Jas. Faulkner, (of Berkeley) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the policy of the state with respect to her slave population. Delivered January 20, 1832
. Richmond: T.W. White, printer, 1832.
———. Speech of C. J. Faulkner, Esq., of Berkeley, in Committee of the Whole, on the basis question, delivered in the Virginia Reform Convention, on Wednesday and Thursday, March 26th and 27th, 1851
. Richmond, Va.: Printed by R. H. Gallaher, 1851.
———. Speech of C. J. Faulkner, Esq., of Berkeley, in Committee of the Whole, on the subject of taxation, delivered in the Virginia Reform Convention, on Monday and Tuesday, July 7th and 8th, 1851
. Richmond, Va.: Printed by R. H. Gallaher, 1851.
———. Speech of Hon. C.J. Faulkner, of Virginia, on the compromise—the presidency—political parties. Delivered in the House of Representatives, August 2, 1852
. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1852.
———. Speech of Mr. Faulkner, of Virginia, on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, delivered in the House of Representatives, April 10, 1854
. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1854.
———. [Speeches ... 1848-54
]. [N.p., n.d.]
McVeigh, Donald R. “Charles James Faulkner: Reluctant Rebel.” Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University, 1955.
Townsend, George Alfred. Sketch of Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, from our Representatives abroad: A biographical work
. New York: Atlantic Pub. Co., 1873.
Woodward, Isaiah A. “Delegates Faulkner, Brown and Wise and the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and 1851.” West Virginia History
25 (January 1964): 130-37.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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