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STEVENSON, Andrew, statesman, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1784; died at Blenheim, his estate, in Albemarle county, Virginia, 25 January, 1857. He studied law, won a high place in his profession, and in 1804 was chosen to the state house of delegates, of which, after serving several terms, he became speaker. He was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from 1 December, 1823, till 2 June, 1834, when he resigned. From 1827 till 1834 he was speaker of the house. From 1836 till 1841 Mr. Stevenson was minister to England. On his return he became rector of the University of Virginia, and he devoted the rest of his life to the duties of that office and to agricultural pursuits.-His son, John White, senator, born in Richmond, Virginia, 4 May, 1812; died in Covington, Kentucky, 10 August, 1886, was educated at Hampden Sidney and the University of Virginia, where he was graduated in 1832, and in 1841 settled in Covington, Kentucky, where he practised law with success, and served in the Kentucky legislature in 1845-'7. He was a leader of the State constitutional convention of 1849, was chosen a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1848, 1852, and 1856, and from 1857 till 1861 sat in the lower house of congress. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia Union convention of 1866, and in 1867 he was chosen lieutenant-governor of the state. The governor, John L. Helm, died five days after his inauguration, and Mr. Stevenson acted as governor till 1868, and then was elected to the office by the largest majority that was ever given to a candidate in the state, serving till 1871. In the last year he took his seat in the United States senate, where he served till 1877. On the expiration of his term he became professor of commercial law and contracts in the law-school at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1880 he was chairman of the Democratic national convention that nominated General Winfield S. Hancock for the presidency. In 1884 he was president of the American bar association. He was a commissioner to prepare a "Code of Practice in Civil and Criminal Cases for Kentucky" (1854).
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