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HENRY ALEXANDER WISE (1806-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 751 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:ALEXANDER See also:WISE (1806-1876)  , See also:American politician and soldier, was See also:born at Drummondtown (or Accomac), Accomack See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 3rd of See also:December 18o6 . He graduated from See also:Washington (now Washington and See also:Jefferson) See also:College, See also:Pennsylvania, in 1825, and began to practise See also:law in See also:Nashville, See also:Tennessee, in 1828 . I-le returned to Accomack county, Va., in 1830, and served in the See also:National See also:House of Representatives in 1833-1837 as an See also:anti-See also:nullification Democrat, but See also:broke with the party on the withdrawal of the deposits from the See also:United States See also:Bank, and was re-elected to See also:Congress in 1837, 1839 and 1841 as a Whig, and in 1843 as a See also:Tyler Democrat . From 1844 to 1847 he was See also:minister to See also:Brazil . In 1850-1851 he was a member of the See also:convention to revise the Virginia constitution, and advocated See also:white manhood See also:suffrage, See also:internal improvements, and the abolition of imprisonment for See also:debt . In 1855 he was elected See also:governor of the See also:state (1856-186o) as a Democrat . See also:John See also:Brown's See also:raid occurred during his See also:term, and See also:Wise refused to See also:reprieve Brown after See also:sentence had been passed . He strongly opposed See also:secession, but finally voted for the Virginia See also:ordinance, was commissioned brigadier-See also:general in the Confederate See also:army and served throughout the See also:war . He died at See also:Richmond, Va., on the 12th of See also:September 1876 . He wrote Seven Decades of the See also:Union 79o-186o (1872) . His son, JOHN SERGEANT WISE (b . 1846), United States See also:attorney for the Eastern See also:District of Virginia in 1881-1883, and a member of the National House of Representatives in 1883-1885, wrote The End of an Era (1899) and Recollections of Thirteen Presidents (1906) .

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Life of H . A . Wise, by his See also:grandson, B . H . Wise (1899) .

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