James Barbour was Speaker of the
House of Delegates
(1809–1812), the governor of
Virginia (1812–1814), a member
of the U.S. Senate (1815–1825) and its president pro tempore (1819), and the
secretary of war
(1825–1828) and minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain (1828–1829) in the
administration of President John Quincy Adams. Born in Orange County, he read law in Richmond and married his first cousin, Lucy Maria Johnson. (Barbo. . .
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