Caperton, Allen Taylor

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    Full name
    Allen Taylor Caperton
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
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    Exact
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    Yale
    University of Virginia
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Confederate government (1861-65)
    US Senate
    State legislature

    Allen Taylor Caperton (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    CAPERTON, Allen Taylor, (son of Hugh Caperton), a Senator from West Virginia; born near Union, Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia), November 21, 1810; attended the public schools of Virginia and Huntsville, Ala., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; graduated from Yale College in 1832; studied law in Staunton, Va.; admitted to the bar and practiced; member, Virginia house of delegates 1841-1842; member, State senate 1844-1848; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1850 and 1861; member, State house of delegates 1857-1861; elected by the legislature of Virginia a member of the Confederate States Senate and served until 1865; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate from West Virginia and served from March 4, 1875, until his death in Washington, D.C., July 26, 1876; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Union, W.Va.
    "Caperton, Allen Taylor," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000130.
    How to Cite This Page: "Caperton, Allen Taylor," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5319.