Abraham W. Venable | |
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 Portrait of Venable,c. 1850 | |
| Delegate to the Provisional Confederate States Congress fromNorth Carolina | |
| In office July 20, 1861 – February 17, 1862 | |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNorth Carolina's5th district | |
| In office March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853 | |
| Preceded by | James C. Dobbin |
| Succeeded by | John Kerr Jr. |
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| Born | Abraham Watkins Venable (1799-10-17)October 17, 1799 |
| Died | February 24, 1876(1876-02-24) (aged 76) Oxford, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Abraham Watkins Venable (October 17, 1799 – February 24, 1876) was a 19th-centuryUSpolitician andlawyer fromNorth Carolina. He was an enslaver.[1] Venable was the nephew of congressman and senatorAbraham B. Venable.
Born at "Springfield", his father'sPrince Edward County, Virginia plantation, Venable graduated fromHampden–Sydney College in 1816. Venable studied medicine for two years before turning to law. Venable later graduated fromPrinceton University in 1819 and was admitted to the bar in 1821.
Venable practiced law inVirginia in bothPrince Edward andMecklenburg counties until 1829 when he moved toNorth Carolina. Venable later got involved in politics and served as a presidential elector in the elections of1832,1836 and1844[2] and was elected to the30th Congress as aDemocrat, serving from 1847 to 1853. Venable lost reelection in 1852.
Venable was an elector in the1860 United States presidential election on the Democratic ticket forJohn C. Breckinridge andJoseph Lane. Venable delivered some college addresses, including at Princeton in 1851[3] and at Wake Forest in 1858.[4]
When Virginia declared secession from theUnited States, Venable joinedConfederacy and was elected to theProvisional Confederate Congress. Venable was later elected to theFirst Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864. Venable died inOxford, North Carolina, in 1876 and was interred at Shiloh Presbyterian Churchyard inGranville 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 ofQuarry Hill Creative Center in Vermont (founded 1946 and still extant).
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromNorth Carolina's 5th congressional district March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by (none) | Representative to the Provisional Confederate Congress from North Carolina 1861 | Succeeded by (none) |
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