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About Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart was a Virginia lawyer and American political figure associated with several political parties. Stuart served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as a U.S. Congressman (1841–1843), and as the Secretary of the Interior (1850–1853). Despite opposing Virginia's secession and holding no office after finishing his term in the Virginia Senate during the American Civil War, after the war he was denied a seat in Congress. Stuart led the Committee of Nine, which attempted to reverse the changes brought by Reconstruction. He also served as rector of the University of Virginia.
Everything about Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer
- Position held
- United States representative, member of the State Senate of Virginia, Member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia, United States Secretary of the Interior
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 2, 1807
- Died
- February 13, 1891