James Trezvant Explained

James Trezvant
State1:Virginia
District1:2nd
Term Start1:March 4, 1825
Term End1:March 3, 1831
Predecessor1:Arthur Smith
Successor1:John Y. Mason
Office2:Chairman of the Committee on Military Pensions
Term Start2:March 4, 1829
Term End2:March 3, 1831
Predecessor2:James Coffield Mitchell
Successor2:Position abolished
Office3:Member of the Virginia Senate from Dinwiddie, Southampton and Sussex Counties
Term3:1808–1811
Predecessor3:John Pegram
Successor3:Joseph Goodwyn
Office4:Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Southampton County
Term4:1807
Alongside Edward Bailey
Birth Date:Unknown
Birth Place:Sussex County, Virginia
Death Date:September 2, 1841
Death Place:Southampton County, Virginia
Occupation:lawyer
Party:Jacksonian (after 1829)
Otherparty:Democratic-Republican (before 1829)

James Trezvant (died September 2, 1841) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.[1] He was also a slave owner.[2]

Biography

Born in Sussex County, Virginia, Trezvant studied law after college. He was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Jerusalem, Virginia, eventually rising to position of attorney general in the state. In 1820, Trezvant served as delegate to the State constitutional convention. He subsequently was elected to and served in the State house of delegates.

He was elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1825  - March 3, 1831). He served as chairman of the Committee on Military Pensions during the Twenty-first Congress.

Trezvant served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 from Southampton County; his district included Sussex, Surry, Isle of Wight, Prince George, and Greensville counties. He served on the Committee of the Executive Department.[3]

He was one of the judges in Southampton County in the trials of the people involved in the Nat Turner's Rebellion.[4]

Trezvant died in Southampton County, Virginia on September 2, 1841.

Electoral history

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bioguide Search. 2022-01-29. bioguide.congress.gov.
  2. News: Weil. Julie Zauzmer. Blanco. Adrian. Dominguez. Leo. More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.. 2022-01-29. Washington Post. en.
  3. [#pulliam|Pulliam 1901, p. 68, 71]
  4. Alfred L. Brophy, "The Nat Turner Trials", North Carolina Law Review (June 2013), volume 91: 1817-80.