- Littleton Waller Tazewell
Infobox Senator
name=Littleton Waller Tazewell
jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Virginia
party=Democratic-Republican, Democrat
term=December 7 ,1824 ndashJuly 16 ,1832
preceded=John Taylor
succeeded=William C. Rives
date of birth=birth date|1774|12|17|mf=y
place of birth=Williamsburg, Virginia , U.S.
date of death=death date and age|1860|6|6|1774|12|17
place of death=Norfolk, Virginia , U.S.
spouse=
profession=Politician ,Lawyer Littleton Waller Tazewell (
December 17 ,1774 ndashMay 6 ,1860 ) was aU.S. Representative , U.S. Senator from and governor ofVirginia .Tazewell, son of
Henry Tazewell , was born inWilliamsburg, Virginia . He was privately tutored by John Wickham and later graduated from theCollege of William and Mary at Williamsburg in 1791. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1796 and commenced practice inJames City County, Virginia . He was a member of theVirginia House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. He was elected to theSixth United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofJohn Marshall and served fromNovember 26 ,1800 , toMarch 3 , 1801.He moved to
Norfolk, Virginia in 1802. He held public office again in 1804 in theVirginia General Assembly until 1806. He again served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1816 to 1817. He was one of the commissioners of claims under the treaty withSpain cedingFlorida in 1821.Tazewell was elected in 1824 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Taylor. He was reelected in 1829, and served from December 7, 1824, to July 16, 1832, when he resigned. While in the Senate, he was President pro tempore of the Senate during the
Twenty-second United States Congress and chairman of theSenate Committee on Foreign Relations . He wasGovernor of Virginia from 1834 until 1836. He then retired from public life. His principal published work is "Review of the Negotiations between the United States and Great Britain Respecting the Commerce of the Two Countries" (1829) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Encyclopedia]Politically, Tazewell was a
Jacksonian Republican . he was elected to the U.S. House in 1800 to complete the term in the Sixth Congress whenJohn Marshall resigned. He was senator from 1824 to 1832.Tazewell died in Norfolk, Virginia, May 6, 1860. He was interred on his estate on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and reinterred in 1866 in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk.
Tazewell, Virginia ,Tazewell County, Virginia andTazewell County, Illinois are named in honor of him and his father.Tazewell was the maternal grandfather of
Littleton Waller Tazewell Bradford (1848-1918), a prominent Virginia politician and a founder ofPi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.External links
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000108 Congressional biography]
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