Whaley, Kellian Van Rensalear

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    Full name
    Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Occupation
    Politician
    Businessman
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Union (Unconditional Union, National Union)
    Government
    Johnson Administration (1865-69)
    US House of Representatives
    Military
    Union Army

    Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    WHALEY, Kellian Van Rensalear, a Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia; born in Onondaga County, Utica, N.Y., May 6, 1821; lumber business; recruiter, Union Army; elected as a Unionist from Virginia to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); elected as an Unconditional Unionist from West Virginia to the Thirty-eighth and to the succeeding Congress (December 7, 1863-March 3, 1867); chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Thirty-eighth Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-ninth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1866; delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1864; collector of customs at Brazos de Santiago, Tex., 1868; died on May 20, 1876, Point Pleasant, W. Va.; interment in Lone Oak Cemetery, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
    "Whaley, Kellian Van Rensalear," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000318.
    How to Cite This Page: "Whaley, Kellian Van Rensalear," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12956.