Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-12-08
NINTH DISTRICT
In CONGRESS.
Names Of Men Who Have Represented This
Section Of Virginia in the Halls Of Con-
gTeSS From 1883 10 the Present.


was elected to represent this section in
Congress. The first session began in
March 1879 and the representative was
Andrew Moore, native of Rockbridge
county. He served in two Congresses.
Gen. Francis Preston was elected in
l7sS and served portion of the Fourth
congress till 1897, when he retired and
settled at the "Saltworks." He mar
ried daughter of Gen. William Camp
bell.
Abram Trigg, born in Montgomery
county, was elected to the Fifth con-
gress and reelected to the Sixth, Sew
enth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth con-
crosses, ending in March, 1909.
Daniel Shelley, native of Frederick,
Nd, but at the time a resident of Alb
inRdon, was elected to the Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth
congresses, serving from 1909
Alexander Smith, native of Ireland.
who came to Abingdon, subsequently
removing to Wythe county, was sent to
the Fifteenth congress, and reelected
to the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth congresses, his term ending in
1925. He was again elected to the
Twentieth and Twenty first congresses.
In April. 1880. he died in Washington.
Joseph Draper, of Wythe county, was
elected to fill the vacancy thus occur
ring.
In 1924 Judge Benjamin Estill was
elected TO the Nineteenth congress and
served till 1927. This was a remark
able election. While a member of the
legislature Scott county was formed
and the county seat was named Estill-
vile, now called Gate City. He was
great admirer of Gen. Winfield Scott,
for whom he got the county named. In
the succeeding race for Congress Judge
Estill got nearly every vote in the dis
trict, such was his popularity at the
time.
At the following regular election
Charles Johnston, son of Judge Peter
Johnston, of Abingdon, was elected to
the Twenty-second congress and served
till June II, 1882, when, while visiting
Alexandria, he fell from the dock and
was drowned in the Potomac river.
Joseph Draper was elected to fill the
vacancy caused by his death. These
were the only times Draper ever served
in Congress.
John Fulton, resident of Abingdon,
uvn Id 20 h.
gress. He served till 1895 and was a
candidate for reelection but died in
January, 1886.
George w. Hopkins, of Abingdon,
was elected to the Twenty-fourth con-
gress and was reelected to the Twenty
fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh,
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth con-
crosses, serving till March, 1847. After
representing the United States at Port
ugal for several years he was elected to
the Thirty-fifth congress, his time ex-
plring in 1852
Andrew S. Fulton, of Augusta coun-
ty, located in Abingdon in 1926, but aft
erward removed to Wythe county. He
was elected to the Thirtieth congress in
lS47, beating the noted politician, Fay
cite McMullen, of Smyth county, by
only 6 votes.
Fayette McMullen went to the Thir
ty-first and was reelected to the Thir-
ty-second and Thirty-third without op-
position and to the Thirty-fourth, his
last term ending in March, 1857.
Ebert S. Martin, of Lee county, was
elected to the Thirty-sixth congress and
served to March 8, 1861.
During the Civil War which began in
1861, Walter S. Preston, of Abingdon,
represented the district in the Confed-
crate Congress from 1861 to 1864, when
Fayette McMullen was again elected.
After the war of 1876 conditions
were such that it was difficult to find a
man who could meet the requirements
of reconstruction acts, but James X.
Gibson, of Abingdon, was finally chosen
and was elected by ID, sos over his radi-
cal opponent, Smith, to the Forty-first
congress.
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Daniel Hoge, of Montgomery county,
was selected for the Both congress.
from 1866 to 1867, but was not admit
ted, the State then being under mill
tary rule.
Gen. William Terry, of Wytheville,
was elected to the Forty-secoud con-
gress over Fayette McMullsn, indepen-
dent democrat, and Robert W. Hughes,
republican. He was again elected to
the Ferty-fourth congress, Gen. Reese
T. Bowen, of Tazewell county, having
been elected to the Forty third session.
The elections took place then in the
following order, the figures being given
as a matter of reference:
1S76-A. L. Pridemere, democrat,
Is, 127; G. T. Egbert, republican. 4, 791.
Democratic majority, 10, 1886.
1871. B. Richmond, democrat, 5. I2O:
Eauoffa MaMnfian s0do,o~I.A 4 90