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Archibald Stuart (December 2, 1795 – September 20, 1855) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the first cousin of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart and the father of Confederate General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, who was the seventh of eleven children.
Sep 21, 2018 · Archibald Stuart. Archibald Stuart was born on March 19, 1757, near Staunton, Virginia, to Alexander Stuart and Mary Patterson. Not long after Stuart's birth, his parents moved from their Staunton farm to Rockbridge County.
Archibald Stuart (March 19, 1757 - July 11, 1832), lawyer and judge, read law under Thomas Jefferson. The relations between Stuart and Jefferson were friendly, although Stuart was fourteen years younger.
Archibald Stuart was an American Revolutionary soldier, legislator, and jurist, who was for many years a prominent leader of the conservative wing of the Jeffersonian Democrats in his state.
The birth of their son, later James V, brought the House of Stewart into the line of descent of the House of Tudor, and the English throne. Margaret Tudor later married Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and their daughter, Margaret Douglas, was the mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
Jan 22, 2002 · “From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 23 December 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-22-02-0410. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , vol. 22, 6 August 1791 – 31 December 1791 , ed. Charles T. Cullen.
His father, Archibald Stuart, was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and Democratic politician who represented Patrick County in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and also served one term in the United States House of Representatives.
