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Full name
William Jasper Blackburn
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
No. of Siblings
0
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
6
Family
Rutha Cawthon Blackburn (mother), William Alfred Blackburn (father), Elizabeth Armilda Waggoner (first wife - died 1849 - four children), Myra Waggoner (sisten of first wife - two children)
Occupation
Politician
Journalist
Other
Other Occupation
Printer
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Republican
Government
US House of Representatives
State legislature
