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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaHenry Alexander WISE
(1806-1876)
WISE, Henry Alexander,
(father of John Sergeant Wise and Richard Alsop Wise and uncle of
George Douglas Wise), a Representative from Virginia; born in
Drummondtown, Accomack County, Va., December 3, 1806; was privately
tutored until his twelfth year and then entered Margaret Academy,
near Pungoteague, Accomack County; was graduated from Washington
College, Pennsylvania, in 1825; studied law in Winchester, Va.; was
admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Nashville,
Davidson County, Tenn.; returned to Virginia in 1830; held several
local offices; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses, as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth through
Twenty-seventh Congresses, and as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth
Congress and served from March 4, 1833, until his resignation on
February 12, 1844; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs
(Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); was appointed
Minister to France in 1843, but was not confirmed; Minister to
Brazil 1844-1847; delegate to the State constitutional convention
in 1850; Governor of Virginia 1856-1860; delegate to the Virginia
Convention, 1861; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; resumed the practice of law in Richmond, Henrico County, Va.;
served on the commission to fix the boundary line between Virginia
and Maryland; died in Richmond, Va., September 12, 1876; interment
in Hollywood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Simpson, Craig M. A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise
of Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1985; Wise, Henry Alexander. Seven Decades of the Union.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1872.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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