George Dromgoole Explained

George Coke Dromgoole
State1:Virginia
District1:2nd
Term Start1:March 4, 1843
Term End1:April 27, 1847
Predecessor1:George B. Cary
Successor1:Richard K. Meade
State2:Virginia
District2:4th
Term Start2:March 4, 1835
Term End2:March 3, 1841
Preceded2:James Gholson
Succeeded2:William O. Goode
Office3:Member of the Virginia Senate from Brunswick, Dinwiddie and Greensville Counties
Term3:1832–1834
Predecessor3:Himself
Successor3:Richard K. Meade
Term4:1830
Predecessor4:District established
Successor4:Himself
Office5:Member of the Virginia Senate from Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg Counties
Term5:1826–1829
Predecessor5:Burwell Goodwyn
Successor5:District abolished
Office6:Speaker of the Virginia Senate
Term6:1832–1834
Predecessor6:William Holt
Successor6:Stafford Parker
Office7:Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Brunswick County
Term7:1823–1825
Alongside Jesse Read, James Gholson
Birth Date:15 May 1797
Birth Place:Lawrenceville, Virginia
Death Place:Brunswick County, Virginia
Restingplace:Family cemetery south of the Meherrin River
Occupation:lawyer
Party:Democratic (after 1837)
Otherparty:Jacksonian (before 1837)

George Coke Dromgoole (May 15, 1797  - April 27, 1847) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the uncle of Alexander Dromgoole Sims and the son of Irish-born pioneer Methodist circuit rider Edward Dromgoole.[1]

Biography

Born in Lawrenceville, Virginia, Dromgoole completed preparatory studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar.

Politics

He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1823 to 1826, a member of the Virginia Senate from 1826 to 1835 and was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1829. Dromgoole was elected a Jacksonian and Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1834, serving from 1835 to 1841, declining reelection in 1840.

Later career and death

He was later elected back in 1842, serving again from 1843 until his death on April 27, 1847, at his estate in Brunswick County, Virginia. He was interred in the family cemetery south of the Meherrin River. Dromgoole also has a cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dromgoole, Edward | NCpedia. www.ncpedia.org.