Blackburn, William Jasper

Life Span
to
    Full name
    William Jasper Blackburn
    Place of Birth
    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
    How to Cite This Page: "Blackburn, William Jasper," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/47171.