Mahone, William

Life Span
to
    Full name
    William Mahone
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    13
    Family
    Fielding Jordan Mahone (father), Martha Drew Mahone (mother), Otelia Butler (wife)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Virginia Military Institute
    Occupation
    Military
    Businessman
    Educator
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Civil Engineer
    Relation to Slavery
    Slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Other
    Other Political Party
    Readjuster Party (VA)
    Government
    US Senate
    Military
    Confederate Army

    William Mahone (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    MAHONE, William, a Senator from Virginia; born in Southampton County, Va., December 1, 1826; graduated from the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1847; taught two years at the Rappahannock Military Academy; became a civil engineer with the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad and rose to president, chief engineer, and superintendent; joined the Confederate Army and took part in the capture of Norfolk Navy Yard; was commissioned brigadier general and major general in 1864; at the close of the Civil War returned to railroad engineering, and became president of the Norfolk and Western; elected to the United States Senate as a Readjuster and served from March 4, 1881, until March 3, 1887; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1887; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., October 8, 1895; interment in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va.
    "Mahone, William," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000067.
    How to Cite This Page: "Mahone, William," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6157.