Allen T. Caperton

Allen Taylor Caperton ( born November 21, 1810 Monroe County, Virginia; † July 26, 1876 in Washington DC ) was an American politician (Democratic Party). He represented the state of West Virginia in the U.S. Senate, sitting as a senator for Virginia in Konföderiertenkongress.

Life

Allen Caperton, whose father Hugh Caperton was also politically active and in 1813 as a Federalist belonged to the U.S. House of Representatives until 1815, was born in what is now West Virginia. As a 14 - year-old he went to school in Huntsville (Alabama ). Later he graduated from the University of Virginia and at Yale College. After studying law in Staunton, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice as a lawyer.

Policy

Politically, Caperton operated initially in both chambers of the state Legislature of Virginia in the House of Representatives from 1841 to 1841, in the Senate from 1844 to 1848 a further term of office in the House of Representatives joined in 1857-1861. . 1850 and 1861 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the state.

During the Civil War elected him the Parliament of Virginia in the Konföderiertensenat, where he became the successor of the late William B. Preston on January 22, 1864, and remained until March 18, 1865. After the war, he was the first former Konföderationspolitiker, who was elected to the U.S. Senate. He took his seat as a representative of West Virginia from March 4, 1875 true, but died the following year in Washington.