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Daniel Coleman De Jarnette Sr.

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Born: October 18, 1822

Birthplace: Spring Grove Manor near Bowling Green, Virginia

Father: Daniel De Jarnette 1783 – 1850
(Buried: De Jarnette Family Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia)

Wife: Louisa Jane De Jarnette 1824 – 1892
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia)

Children:

Elliott De Jarnette 1846 – 1898​
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia)​
Sallie De Jarnette Baldwin 1848 – 1907​
(Buried: De Jarnette Family Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia)​
Marie Louise De Jarnette Cox 1850 – 1923​
(Buried: De Jarnette Family Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia)​
Lelia Hawes De Jarnette 1853 – 1858​
(Buried: De Jarnette Family Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia)​
Daniel De Jarnette 1856 – 1857​
(Buried: Pine Forest Cemetery, Spotsylvania County, Virginia)​
Daniel Coleman De Jarnette Jr. 1864 – 1926​
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia)​

Political Party: Independent Democrat, Democratic Party

Education:


Attended Bethany College​

Occupation before War:

Planter in Bowling Green, Virginia​
1853 – 1858: Member of Virginia State House of Delegates​
1859 – 1861: United States Congressman from Virginia​
1859 – 1861: Member of House Revolutionary Claims Committee​

Civil War Career:

1861: Won a seat to Confederate Congress over three candidates​
1862 – 1865: Confederate States Congressman from Virginia​
1862 – 1865: Member of House Foreign Affairs Committee​
1864 – 1865: Member of House Medical Department Committee​
He supported all conscription bills except those aimed at Marylanders.​
He advocated giving commanding generals full charge of conscription in their districts.​
He wished congress to specify only a few exemptions from military service and let the secretary of war detail the remained either to the army or to productive labor.​
He thought it best to leave decisions on army organization and officer selection to the war department.​
His position on economic legislation was more extreme.​
He wanted to place no limits upon the right of the government to regulate foreign commerce, restrict the staple crop production, destroy endangered property, punish speculation, or control the movement of gold and silver.​
He demanded only at moving slaves from the field to the army.​
He wanted to tax civilians already suffering from enemy depredations.
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1865: He offered a resolution and a brilliant speech contending that France's invasion of Mexico might constitute a basis for the join defense of the Monroe Doctrine by the United States and the independent Confederacy.​

Occupation after War:

Planter in Bowling Green, Virginia​
1871: One of the arbitrators to define the border of Virginia & Maryland.​
Member of Board of visitors for Virginia A & M College (Virginia Tech)​

Died:
August 20, 1881

Place of Death: White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

Age at time of Death: 58 years old

Burial Place: Spring Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia
 
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Thank you for sharing this biography, you have helped me discover another distant cousin! I am related to the De Jarnette family through my direct ancestor Jean De Jarnette a Huguenot who fled France after the revocation of the Edit of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. Congressman De Jarnette's grandfather Daniel De Jarnette was a tavern owner in Colonial Virginia who won the tavern he operated in a arm wrestling match according to local lore.
 
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