John Franklin Rixey
John Franklin Rixey | |
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Charles C. Carlin | |
Personal details | |
Born | Culpeper County, Virginia, U.S. | August 1, 1854
Died | February 8, 1907 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 52)
Resting place | Fairview Cemetery Culpeper, Virginia, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Ella B. Barbour |
Children | 4 |
Alma mater | University of Virginia |
Occupation | Lawyer |
John Franklin Rixey (August 1, 1854 – February 8, 1907) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Virginia's 8th congressional district from 1897 to 1907.[1]
Early and family life
John Franklin Rixey was born on August 1, 1854, in the
Rixey married Ella B. Barbour (1859–1946), daughter of
Career
After admission to the Virginia bar in 1875, Rixey had a private legal practice in Culpeper, Virginia. He was elected the county's Commonwealth Attorney (prosecutor) in 1879 and served in that position until 1891.[4]
In 1896, Democratic Congressman Elisha E. Meredith retired to his legal practice, and voters in Virginia's 8th congressional district elected Rixey to the 55th Congress. Re-elected five times, Rixey served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., on February 8, 1907 (before the close of the 59th Congress). Although he had been re-elected to the 60th Congress, he died before beginning that term.
Beginning in his third Congressional term, Rixey proposed to place all Civil War veterans in the same class with respect to federal and state soldiers' homes. He also hosted President
Death and legacy
Rixey died in Washington, D.C., on February 8, 1907, and was survived by his wife and daughter Edith Presley Moore. He is interred at Culpeper's Fairview Cemetery.[7] His portrait was placed at the courthouse in 1917.[8]
After a contested
See also
- List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
References
- ^ * John Franklin Rixey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ^ Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915)
- ^ 1900 U.S. Federal Census for Stevensburg, Culpeper County, Virginia
- ^ Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915)
- ^ Scheel at pp. 260, 313
- ^ Joan Zenzen,Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas (Pennsylvania State University Press 2010) p. 9
- Find A Grave. Apr 26, 2004. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ^ Eugene M. Scheel, Culpeper: A Virginia County's History through 1920 (Green Publishers for the Culpeper Historical Society, 1982) p. 323