Robert Mercer Taliaferro HUNTER，国会，弗吉尼亚州(1809-1887)

亨特，Robert Mercer Taliaferro，来自弗吉尼亚州的众议员和参议员;1809年4月21日出生在弗吉尼亚州埃塞克斯县洛雷托附近的âMount Pleasant，â;在家辅导;1828年毕业于夏洛茨维尔的弗吉尼亚大学;学习法律;1830年获得律师资格，并开始在劳埃德银行执业;1834-1837年，国家大会成员;1837年3月4日- 1843年3月3日，当选为第二十五届、二十六届和二十七届国会的州权辉格党成员;第二十六届国会众议院议长;第二十八届国会议员再选失败的候选人; elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-ninth Congress); elected to the United States Senate in 1846; reelected in 1852 and 1858 and served from March 4, 1847, to March 28, 1861, when he withdrew; expelled from the Senate on July 11, 1861, for support of the rebellion; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings (Thirtieth through Thirty-second Congresses), Committee on Finance (Thirty-first through Thirty-sixth Congresses); delegate from Virginia to the Confederate Provincial Congress at Richmond; Confederate Secretary of State 1861-1862; served in the Confederate Senate from Virginia in the First and Second Congresses 1862-1865 and was President pro tempore on various occasions; was one of the peace commissioners that met with President Abraham Lincoln in Hampton Roads in February 1865; briefly imprisoned at the end of the Civil War; State treasurer of Virginia 1874-1880; collector for the port of Tappahannock, Va. 1885; died on his estate âFonthill,â near Lloyds, Va., on July 18, 1887; interment in âElmwood,â the family burial ground, near Loretto, Va.

参考书目

美国传记词典；约翰·e·费雪，《失败的事业:R.M.T.亨特的职业生涯，1859-1887》âStatesman。â弗吉尼亚大学博士学位论文，1966年;摩尔，理查德·兰德尔，âRobert M.T.亨特与联邦危机，1860-1861.â南方的历史学家13(1992年春):25-35。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今