John Wayles Eppes

John Wayles Eppes ( born April 19, 1773 in Eppington, Chesterfield County, Virginia; † September 13, 1823 in Buckingham County, Virginia ) was an American politician ( Democratic- Republican), of the state of Virginia in both houses of Congress represented.

John Eppes was the youngest child of his parents and the only son after five daughters. He attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1786 and made his final at Hampden - Sydney College. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1794 and commenced practice as a lawyer in Richmond. In October 1797 he married his cousin Mary Jefferson, the daughter of former U.S. vice-president and later president Thomas Jefferson. She brought three children into the world: a stillborn daughter, son Francis, who later became president of the University of Florida was, and daughter Martha. Two months after their birth in February 1804 died Eppes ' wife. Eppes was in 1809 a second marriage, emerged from the two other children.

His first political office Eppes had held as a member of the Lower House of Virginia from 1801 to 1803. On 4 March 1803 he moved as a representative of the 16th Congressional District of Virginia a House of Representatives of the United States, where he remained after three re-election to March 3, 1811. He then spent two years on his plantation " Milbrook ," before he returned for a two -year term in Congress. Among other things, he led there from time to time the chair of the Committee on Ways and Means.

1814 Eppes stand for re- election, but was defeated John Randolph of Roanoke, who then replaced him as MP on 3 March 1815. Two years later, he moved as a U.S. Senator in the Congress. He also took over the chairmanship of the Finance Committee, had his mandate but already on 4 December 1819 for health reasons resign. Eppes spent his last years on his plantation in Buckingham County, where he died in September 1823. He was buried in the family cemetery near Curdsville.