| LC control no. | no2008121184 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Caperton, Allen Taylor, 1810-1876 |
| Variant(s) | Caperton, Mr. (Allen Taylor), 1810-1876 |
| Birth date | 1810-11-21 |
| Death date | 1876-07-26 |
| Place of birth | Union (W. Va.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | University of Virginia Yale College (1718-1887) Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates Virginia. General Assembly. Senate Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond, Va.) Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | In the Senate of the United States. April 4, 1876, 1876: p. 1 (Mr. Caperton, from the Committe on Claims) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Aug. 20, 2008 (Caperton, Allen Taylor; a Senator from W.V.; b. Nov. 21, 1810; d. July 26, 1876) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. website, September 25, 2015 (Caperton, Allen Taylor, (son of Hugh Caperton), a Senator from West Virginia; born near Union, Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia), November 21, 1810; attended the public schools of Virginia and Huntsville, Ala., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; graduated from Yale College in 1832; studied law in Staunton, Va.; admitted to the bar and practiced; member, Virginia house of delegates 1841-1842; member, State senate 1844-1848; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1850 and 1861; member, State house of delegates 1857-1861; elected by the legislature of Virginia a member of the Confederate States Senate and served until 1865; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate from West Virginia and served from March 4, 1875, until his death in Washington, D.C., July 26, 1876; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Union, W.Va) Wikipedia website, September 28, 2015 (Allen Taylor Caperton ... a United States Senator from the State of West Virginia in 1875-1876 ... graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville ... in 1861, he was a member of the Virginia Secession Convention) |
| Associated language | eng |
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