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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Virginia / USAndrew STEVENSON
(1784-1857)
STEVENSON, Andrew, (father
of John White Stevenson), a Representative from Virginia; born in
Culpeper County, Va., January 21, 1784; pursued classical studies;
attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.;
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Richmond, Va.; member of the state house of delegates 1809-1816 and
1818-1821 and served as speaker 1812-1815; unsuccessful candidate
in 1814 and 1816 for election to Congress; elected as a Republican
to the Seventeenth Congress; reelected as a Crawford Republican to
the Eighteenth Congress and elected as a Jacksonian to the
Nineteenth through the Twenty-third Congresses and served from
March 4, 1821, until his resignation, June 2, 1834; Speaker of the
House of Representatives (Twentieth through Twenty-third
Congresses); Minister to Great Britain 1836-1841; engaged in
agricultural pursuits at “Blenheim,” Albemarle County,
Va.; in 1845 was elected a member of the board of visitors of the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and in 1856 was elected
rector; died at his home, “Blenheim,” January 25, 1857;
interment in Enniscothy Cemetery, Albemarle County, Va.
Bibliography
Wayland, Francis Fry. Andrew Stevenson, Democrat and Diplomat,
1785-1857. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1949.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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