Abraham Watkins Venable
Abraham Watkins Venable (October 17, 1799 – February 24, 1876) was a 19th-century US politician and lawyer from North Carolina. He was a slaveholder.[1] He was the nephew of congressman and senator Abraham Bedford Venable.
Biography
Born in Springfield, Virginia, he graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in 1816. He studied medicine for two years before turning to law. He later graduated from Princeton University in 1819 and was admitted to the bar in 1821.
He practiced law in Virginia in both Prince Edward and Mecklenburg counties until 1829 when he moved to North Carolina. He later got involved in politics and served as a presidential elector in the elections of 1832, 1836 and 1844[2] and was elected to the 30th Congress as a Democrat, serving from 1847 to 1853. He ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1852.
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References
- Washington Post. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ NCLive: Clipping from October 23, 1844 issue of Raleigh's Weekly Standard
- ^ Abraham Watkins Venable, Address Delivered Before the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies at the College of New Jersey (1851). See also Alfred L. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in the Southern Academy and Judiciary and the Coming of Civil War (2016): 133 (discussing Venable's speech at Princeton).
- ^ Speech of the Hon. A.W. Venable Before the Literary Societies, Wake Forest College, ... June 8th, 1858 (Raleigh, 1858).
External links
- United States Congress. "Abraham Watkins Venable (id: V000084)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2009-03-21
- Abraham W. Venable at The Political Graveyard