Allen Taylor Caperton

Confederate Senator, Virginia, 1861-1865
U. S. Senator, West Virginia, 1875-1876

Born: November 21, 1810, near Union, Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia).

• Attended the public schools of Virginia and Huntsville, Alabama, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
• Yale College, graduate, 1832.
  
• Studied law in Staunton, West Virginia.
  
• Was admitted to the Virginia bar and practiced law.
  
• Whig member of the Virginia House of Delegates , 1841-1842.
  
• Served in the Virginia State Senate, 1844-1848.
  
• Delegate from Virginia to the Whig National Convention at Philadelphia, 1848.
  
• Delegate to the Virginia State Constitutional Conventions, 1850 and 1861.
  
• Again a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1857-1861.
  
• Elected by the Legislature of Virginia a member of the Confederate States Senate, serving until 1865.
  
• Elected from West Virginia as a Democrat to the United States Senate, serving from March 4, 1875, until his death in 1876.

Died: July 26, 1876, Washington, D. C.
Buried: Green Hill Cemetery, Union, West Virginia.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)