Florida founder William P. DuVal
Subtitle: frontier bon vivant
By: James M. Denham
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781611174663; 9781611174670
Subjects: Governors; Politics and government; Biography
Description: Each day thousands of revelers trudge down DuVal Street in Florida’s Key West, but few know for whom the street is named. In Florida Founder William P. DuVal, James M. Denham provides the first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scion of the Old Dominion; title: Soldier and war hawk politician; title: Judge and governor; title: Founder of the Florida Territory; title: Neamathla and a new territorial capital; title: A "corrupt bargain" and a new home in Florida; title: Trials, tribulations, and "left-handed justice"; title: "I have health, activity, good spirits, and a small share of perserverity"; title: "Harassed by the persecution of their neighbors"; title: Storm clouds on the horizon; title: "I intend to examine...your relation to the president"; title: Nullifying an election; title: "I shall return very poor to Kentucky"; title: "Do all you can for Texas"; title: Canals, banks, and a constitutional convention; title: Faith bonds, division, depression, and a plague; title: "Tyler too," Washington intrigue, and St. Augustine; title: State of Texas, State of Florida; title: "I will not be the cause of disunion in our ranks"; title: Gone to Texas, gone to Washington.