Hunton, Eppa

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Eppa Hunton
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Siblings
    11
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    2
    Family
    Eppa Hunton (father), Elizabeth Mary Brent Hunton (mother), Lucy Caroline Weir (wife), Elizabeth Boothe Hunton (daughter), Eppa Hunton III (son)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    New Baltimore Academy
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Educator
    Relation to Slavery
    Slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Other Affiliations
    Fire-Eaters (Secessionists)
    Government
    US Senate
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Local government
    Military
    Confederate Army
    Slaveholding in 1860
    8
    Children in 1860
    2
    Occupation in 1860
    Attorney
    Political Party in 1860
    Democratic

    Eppa Hunton (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    HUNTON, Eppa, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Va., September 22, 1822; attended New Baltimore Academy; taught school three years; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Brentsville, Va.; served as colonel, and later general, in the Virginia militia; Commonwealth attorney for Prince William County 1849-1861; member of the Virginia convention at Richmond in February 1861 and advocated secession; entered the Confederate Army as colonel of the Eighth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; promoted to brigadier general after the Battle of Gettysburg and served through the remainder of the Civil War; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-sixth Congress); appointed a member of the Electoral Commission created by act of Congress in 1877 to decide the contests in various States in the presidential election of 1876; resumed the practice of law; appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John S. Barbour and served from May 28, 1892, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed the practice of law in Warrenton, Va.; died in Richmond, Va., October 11, 1908; interment in Hollywood Cemetery.
    "Hunton, Eppa," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000999.
    How to Cite This Page: "Hunton, Eppa," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5948.