biography
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| lived:
| (1802–48)
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| biography:
| US representative and senator, born in Dinwiddie Co, Virginia, USA. He practised law in Alabama and as member of the House of Representatives (Democrat, Alabama, 1829–44) he championed states' rights. In the Senate (1844–8) he opposed the United States Bank. A man of extraordinary weight, he required special arrangements to travel and to sit in assemblies. |
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