Life span: 09/24/1822 to 10/11/1908TabsLife SummaryFull name: Eppa HuntonPlace of Birth: Warrington, VABurial Place: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VABirth Date Certainty: ExactDeath Date Certainty: ExactGender: MaleRace: WhiteSectional choice: SouthOrigins: Slave StateNo. of Siblings: 11No. of Spouses: 1No. of Children: 2Family: Eppa Hunton (father), Elizabeth Mary Brent Hunton (mother), Lucy Caroline Weir (wife), Elizabeth Boothe Hunton (daughter), Eppa Hunton III (son)Education: OtherOther Education: New Baltimore AcademyOccupation: PoliticianMilitaryAttorney or JudgeEducatorRelation to Slavery: SlaveholderPolitical Parties: DemocraticOther Affiliations: Fire-Eaters (Secessionists)Government: US SenateUS House of RepresentativesState legislatureLocal governmentMilitary: Confederate Army Census SnapshotSlaveholding in 1860: 8Children in 1860: 2Occupation in 1860: AttorneyPolitical Party in 1860: Democratic Note Cards Eppa Hunton (Congressional Biographical Directory) ReferenceHUNTON, 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. Events Date span begin Life span End Event 02/13/1861 05/01/1861 The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond 10/21/1861 10/21/1861 Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac 07/03/1863 07/03/1863 Lee's attack on the Union center ends with the failure of Pickett's Charge 04/06/1865 04/06/1865 At Sailor's Creek, the Army of Northern Virginia loses almost a quarter of its remaining strength 04/06/1865 04/06/1865 In Virginia, CSA corps commander General Richard S. Ewell is taken prisoner, along with four of his generals Documents Images Eppa Hunton Eppa Hunton, detail Eppa Hunton, Brady image Eppa Hunton, Brady image, detail Bibliography
Eppa Hunton (Congressional Biographical Directory) ReferenceHUNTON, 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.
