Amherst County, USA

1. William H. Crawford (1772)

Politician

American politician who served as U. S. Secretary of War from 1815 to 1816 and Secretary of the Treasury from 1816 to 1825. He ran for president in 1824 but...

2. Vance Wilkins (1936)

American Politician

Shirley Vance Wilkins Jr. is a retired American politician of the Republican Party. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978-2002. In 2000 he became...

3. William Becknell (1787)

American Politician

Becknell was a soldier politician and freight operator who established the Santa Fe Trail.

4. Robert S. Rose (1774)

American Politician

Robert Selden Rose was a U. S. Representative from New York.

5. Powhatan Ellis (1790)

United States Federal Judge

Powhatan Ellis was a United States Senator from Mississippi and a United States federal judge. Born at Red Hill in Amherst County Virginia he graduated from Washington Academy in 1809...

6. William Cabell Rives (1793)

American Politician

Cabell Rives was an American lawyer politician and diplomat from Albemarle County Virginia. He represented Virginia as a Jackson Democrat in both the U. S. House and Senate and also...

7. Cabell R. Berry (1848)

Speaker Of The Tennessee State S

Cabell Rives Berry was the Speaker of the Tennessee Senate from 1885 to 1887.

8. Benjamin Taliaferro (Unknow)

Politician And American Revoluti

Benjamin Taliaferro was a United States Representative from Georgia.

9. William Terry (1824)

Actor

10. Paulus Powell (Unknow)

American Politician

Paulus Powell was a nineteenth-century politician from Virginia. Born in Amherst County Virginia Powell attended private schools as a child and went on to attend Amherst College. He held several...

11. Aubrey E. Strode (1873)

Member Of The Senate Of Virginia

Aubrey Ellis Strode was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate representing the state's 19th district.

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