Charles James Faulkner (July 6, 1806 - November 1, 1884) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia. He is the father of Charles James Faulkner.
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Faulkner was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Faulkner graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1822, studied law and was treated in a bar in 1829. Faulkner was the father of a son of the same name, Charles James Faulkner (1847-1929)
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Careers
As an adult, Faulkner practiced law at Berkeley County. He was elected a member of Virginia House of Delegates 1832-33. Soon after Faulkner was appointed commissioner to report the line between Virginia and Maryland.
Later in his career, Faulkner was elected to the State Senate of Virginia in 1841, and returned to the General Assembly in 1848. In 1848 he introduced in Virginia House of Delegates a law after which the Fugitive Fugitive Act of 1850 was modeled.
In 1850, Faulkner was elected to the Virginia Constitution Convention of 1850. He was one of four delegates selected from the northern Valley delegation district composed of his home districts in Berkeley County as well as Jefferson and County Clarke.
Faulkner was US Representative from 1851 to 1858 Entering the Congress as Whig, the next Congress of Faulkner was elected a Democrat, whom he lived for the rest of his career in Congress.
Faulkner was elected a Whig and Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1850, serving from 1851 to 1859. There he served as chair of the Military Affairs Committee from 1857 to 1859.
He was appointed by President James Buchanan Minister to France in 1860, serving until he was arrested in August 1861 on alleged arms sales negotiations for the Confederacy while in Paris, France. He was imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston. Faulkner was released in December after negotiating his own exchange for Alfred Ely, a New York congressman who was arrested at the First Battle of Bull Run.
During the American Civil War, Faulkner enrolled in the Confederate Army and a lieutenant colonel and assistant general on the staff of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
Faulkner was involved in the railroad company after the war and became a member of the West Virginia Constitution Convention again in 1872. He was re-elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat from West Virginia in 1874, serving again from 1875 to 1877. After that, he returned to law practice until his death.
Death
Charles J. Faulkner died in a family home called "Boydville" near Martinsburg, West Virginia on November 1, 1884. Faulkner was buried in a family funeral on the estate.
References
Bibliography
- "Biography Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Now". bioguide.congress.gov . United States Congress . Retrieved January 1, 2016 .
- Krick, Robert E. L. (2003). Officer Gray: Biography List of Staff at the Northern Virginia Army . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. p.Ã, 125. ISBNÃ, 978-0-8078-2788-8. Pulliam, David Loyd (1901). Virginia Constitution Convention from Commonwealth base to date . John T. West, Richmond. ISBN: 978-1-2879-2059-5.
External links
- United States Congress. "Charles J. Faulkner (id: F000044)". Directory of Biographies of the United States Congress . Retrieved on 2008-02-13
- "Charles J. Faulkner". Find Grave . Retrieved 2008-02-13 .
- Ã, "Faulkner, Charles James". Encyclopedia Americana . 1920.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographic Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.
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