Lawrence Taliaferro Dade Explained

Honorific-Prefix:General
Lawrence Taliaferro Dade
Office:Member of the Senate of Virginia
Term Start:1819
Term End:1832
Office1:Member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing Orange County
Term Start1:1811
Term End1:May 16, 1813
Preceded1:James Barbour
Succeeded1:Robert Mallory
Alongside1:Philip Barbour
Birth Date:1785
Birth Place:"Sylvan Ledge", Orange County, Virginia, U.S.
Death Date:March 25, 1842
Death Place:Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.
Children:Mary Jackson Dade, Lawrence Alexander Dade, Lucy Fitzhugh, Alexander Dade, Francis Cadwallader Dade, Virginia Elizabeth Dade, Agnes Macon Dade
Residence:"Bell Forest," Orange County Virginia & Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
Rank:Captain
Unit:2nd Regiment of the Virginia Artillery, 1812

Lawrence Taliaferro Dade of "Bell Forest," (1785 in Orange County, Virginia  - March 25, 1842 in Owensboro, Kentucky) was a Virginia state senator, planter and captain in the US Army.

At the time he was serving as a member of the Virginia Assembly (1808–1819). He also served as a member of the Virginia State Senate from 1819 to 1832.

Before his death in 1842, he moved with his family to Owensboro, Kentucky.

Early and family life

Lawrence Taliaferro Dade was born to Captain Francis Dade and Sarah Taliaferro in 1785. Captain Francis Dade and his cousin Baldwin Dade were patriots of the Revolutionary War serving in the 3rd Continental Light Dragoons.

He married Anne Mayo on May 4, 1815, in Henrico, Virginia.

Military

Dade entered the War of 1812 as Captain of the 2nd Regiment of the Virginia Artillery.

Career

After admission to the Virginia bar, Dade had a law office in Orange County, Virginia. When his cousin Francis L. Dade finished school, he read law under Lawrence's supervision.[1]

Family

Lawrence Taliaferro Dade's great-great-grandfather was Francis Dade (Virginia Burgess), also known as John Smith.[2]

Virginia Senate

Virginia voters first elected Dade to the Virginia Senate in 1811, and he was re-elected numerous times.[3] Much of his correspondence with President James Madison has survived.

During a senate session in 1828, Dade praised Joseph Cabell of Nelson County Virginia who was nearly regarded as a co-founder of the University of Virginia, stating "If aught of good proceeds from the University, the pride and glory of Virginia, the member from Nelson cannot be forgotten; for he, in promoting that monument of wisdom and taste, was second only to the immortal Jefferson."[4]

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Notes and References

  1. White, p. 733
  2. Maurer, pp. 121
  3. Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 267, 272, 279, 283, 287, 301, 306, 311, 316, 321, 326, 331, 336, 341, 346, 351, 358, 362, 364
  4. Book: Jefferson, Thomas . Early history of the University of Virginia : as contained in the letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, hitherto unpublished / with an appendix ... and a bibliographical notice of Joseph C. Cabell. . 35.