Abraham Watkins Venable

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Biography

Born at "Springfield", his father's Prince Edward County, Virginia plantation, Venable graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in 1816. Venable studied medicine for two years before turning to law. Venable later graduated from Princeton University in 1819 and was admitted to the bar in 1821.

Venable practiced law in Virginia in both Prince Edward and Mecklenburg counties until 1829 when he moved to North Carolina. Venable later got involved in politics and served as a presidential elector in the elections of 1832, 1836 and 1844^[2] and was elected to the 30th Congress as a Democrat, serving from 1847 to 1853. Venable lost reelection in 1852.

Venable was an elector in the 1860 United States presidential election on the Democratic ticket for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane. Venable delivered some college addresses, including at Princeton in 1851^[3] and at Wake Forest in 1858.^[4]

When Virginia declared secession from the United States, Venable joined Confederacy and was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress. Venable was later elected to the First Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864. Venable died in Oxford, North Carolina, in 1876 and was interred at Shiloh Presbyterian Churchyard in Granville County, North Carolina. Like many other members of the Venable, Watkins, and Daniel families (including Nathaniel Venable and Elizabeth Venable,) he was an ancestor of Isabelle Daniel Hall Fiske (Barbara Hall), the cartoonist, artist, and co-creator of Quarry Hill Creative Center in Vermont (founded 1946 and still extant).

References

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↑ NCLive: Clipping from October 23, 1844 issue of Raleigh's Weekly Standard
↑ Abraham Watkins Venable, Address Delivered Before the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies at the College of New Jersey (1851). See also Alfred L. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in the Southern Academy and Judiciary and the Coming of Civil War (2016): 133 (discussing Venable's speech at Princeton).
↑ Speech of the Hon. A.W. Venable Before the Literary Societies, Wake Forest College, ... June 8, 1858 (Raleigh, 1858).

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Abraham W. Venable at The Political Graveyard

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[2] NCLive: Clipping from October 23, 1844 issue of Raleigh's Weekly Standard

[3] Abraham Watkins Venable, Address Delivered Before the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies at the College of New Jersey (1851). See also Alfred L. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thought in the Southern Academy and Judiciary and the Coming of Civil War (2016): 133 (discussing Venable's speech at Princeton).

[4] Speech of the Hon. A.W. Venable Before the Literary Societies, Wake Forest College, ... June 8, 1858 (Raleigh, 1858).

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