Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart

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American politician (1807-1891)

United States PoliticiansLived 1807 to 1891 · aged 83

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Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart was a Virginia lawyer and American political figure associated with several political parties. S. Congressman (1841-1843), and as the Secretary of the Interior (1850-1853).

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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.

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