ID: I5424
Name: John Floyd
Sex: M
Birth: 24 APR 1783 in Floyd's Station, Ky 1
Death: 15 AUG 1837 1
Burial: Sweetsprings Cem, Sweetsprings, W.V.
Occupation: Gov of Va 1829-1834
Note: John Floyd was born 1783, two weeks after his father was killed by Indians. Mr. Floyd went to Congress from 1817-1829. He served as Governor of Virginia from 1829 - 1834.
Note: FLOYD, John, a Representative from Virginia; born at Floyds
Station, near the present city of Louisville, Jefferson County,
Ky. (then a part of Virginia), April 24, 1783; pursued an academic
course; attended Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., and was
graduated from the medical department of the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1806; settled in Lexington, Va.,
the same year, and soon thereafter moved to Christiansburg,
Montgomery County, Va., where he practiced his profession;
justice of the peace in 1807; major of Virginia State Militia 1807-1812;
served as surgeon with rank of major in the War of 1812;
subsequently became brigadier general of militia; member of
the State house of delegates in 1814 and 1815; elected as a Republican
to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the five succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1829); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1828; Governor of Virginia 1830-1834; received
the electoral vote of South Carolina for President in 1833; died near
Sweetsprings, Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia), August 17,
1837; interment in an unmarked grave in the cemetery at Sweetsprings.
#For more information on the FLOYD Family,
#see FLOYD.
Father: John (Colonel) Floyd b: 1751
Mother: Jane Buchanan b: 1763 in Augusta Co, Va
Marriage 1
Letitia Preston b: ABT 1783 in Va
Sources:
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Stevens, Pat M. , 9343 Boothe St, Alexandria, Va. 22309, 703-780-3151 stevensp@erols.com www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/t/e/Pat-M-Stevens-iv/BOOK-0001/0008-0001.ht
- Note:
Simonini, Leona, 1134 Lassen View Drive, Lake Almanor Peninsula, Westwood, Calif 96137 leesim@psln.com
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