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Dabney Smith Carr (March 5, 1802 – March 24, 1854) was an American newspaper publisher, diplomat, and the grand-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. He was born to Peter Carr and Hester Smith-Carr in
Albemarle County, Virginia Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Char ...
and was the grandson of
Dabney Carr Dabney Carr (April 27, 1773 – January 8, 1837) was a Virginia lawyer, writer and a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Early and family life Martha Peyton Jefferson gave birth to this Dabney Carr at Spring Forest, a Goochland ...
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Martha Jefferson Carr Dabney Carr (October 26, 1743 – May 16, 1773) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and was married to Martha Jefferson, the sister of Thomas Jefferson. He introduced the Committee of correspondence in Virginia which was a leading fac ...
(Thomas Jefferson's sister). He married a woman named Sidney Nichols. He served as the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire from 1843 to 1849. Carr died in 1854 in
Charlottesville, Virginia Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Ch ...
. He was interred at the family cemetery at Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, in Charlottesville.


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, by Lieutenant William Francis Lynch, U.S.N., 1849, Chapter I on WikiSource. *Appletons' Cyclopedia Of American Biography v.1


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Dabney S. 1802 births 1854 deaths Jefferson family People from Albemarle County, Virginia Burials at Monticello 19th-century American diplomats Ambassadors of the United States to the Ottoman Empire