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of German ancestry. lie was a student at
Emory and Henry College and was within
a few months of graduation, when he was
obliged to leave, on account of the death of
his father. He engaged in school teaching,
and was so employed when the civil war
broke out. He at once entered the Con-
federate service as captain of Company A,
Twenty-first Virginia Battalion, was pro-
moted to lieutenant-colonel, and later was
commissioned colonel of the Sixty-fourth
Virginia Regiment, a combined infantry and
cavalry command, with which he served
with ability to the close of the war. Re-
turning home, he engaged in farming, and
operating in mining and timber lands. From
1880 to 1884 he was a member of the house
of delegates ; in 1888 was a presidential elec-
tor on the Harrison ticket, and in 1889 was
a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the
ticket with Gen. William Mahone. In 1890
lie was superintendent of the state census.
In 1896 he was a presidential elector on the
McKinley ticket. He was elected as a Re-
publican to the fifty-eighth congress, and
re-elected to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and
sixty-first congresses, serving until his death,
at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, October 13,
1907. He was regarded as a strong type of
ihe business man in politics, as evidenced
by his leaving the Democratic party in
1884. to ally himself with the Republicans,
by reason of his deep conviction as to the
benefits of a protective tarifif. He married,
in 186^, Naimie B. Cawood, of Owsley
county, Kentucky.
Slemp, Campbell Bascom, born at Turkey Cove, Lee county, Virginia, September 4, 1870; a page in house of delegates of \'ir- ginia, 1881-1882; was graduated from the
\'irginia Militar_\- Institute: commandant of
cadets in the Marion Military Institute for
one year; adjunct professor of mathematics,
\'irginia Military Institute; resigned in
I'loi, to enter professional and business
life : chairman of the Republican state com-
mittee in 1905 ; elected as a Republican to
the sixtieth congress, December 17, 1907, to
fill vacancy caused by the death of his
father, Campbell Slemp ; re-elected to the
sixty-first congress, and served from Janu-
ary 6, 19(58, to March 3, 191 1 ; re-elected to
the sixty-second and to the sixty-third by
increasing majority, also to the sixty-fourth
congress.
Smith, John Ambler, born at Village View, Virginia, September 23, 1847 ; com- pleted preparatory studies ; studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practice in Richmond, Virginia, in 1867; held several local otifices ; member of the state senate in 1869 ; elected as a Republican to the forty- first congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875) ; resumed the practice of law in Wash- ington, D. C, and died there January 6, 1892.
Southall, Robert Goode, born in .\melia county, Virginia, December 26, 1852, son of Dr. Philip Francis Southall and a descend- ant of D'Arcy Southall, who settled in Hen- rico county, Virginia, about 1720; attended the Washington Academy and high school 01 Amelia county ; deputy clerk of Notto- way county for fourteen years ; was gradu- ated from the law school of the University of Virginia in June, 1876, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in January, 1877 ; delegate to the Democratic conven- tion at St. Louis in 1888 and at Chicago in 189^ ; member of the state house of dele-
