Francis Preston (August 2, 1765 – May 26, 1835) was an American lawyer and politician from
Abingdon, Virginia
Abingdon is a town in Washington County, Virginia, United States, southwest of Roanoke. The population was 8,376 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. The town encompasses several historically significant sites and f ...
. He was the son of
Col.
William Preston of Virginia, served in both houses of the state legislature, and represented
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
in the
U.S. House of Representatives from 1793 to 1797. Preston had a house built in Abingdon, now called the
Martha Washington Inn. In 1795, while residing at
Saltville, he constructed the
Preston House.
Preston was the father of
Isaac Trimble Preston
Isaac Trimble Preston (1793 – July 4, 1852) was a 19th-century Louisiana lawyer, politician, and Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Preston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, the son of Francis Preston. In a letter to James Madison, ...
,
William Campbell Preston, and
John S. Preston and the uncle of
William Ballard
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
and
William Preston.
Electoral history
*1793; Preston was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives defeating Abram Trigg.
*1795; Preston was re-elected unopposed.
References
External links
Preston's Congressional biography
1765 births
1835 deaths
Members of the Virginia House of Delegates
Virginia state senators
Virginia lawyers
Politicians from Abingdon, Virginia
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
Virginia colonial people
People from Saltville, Virginia
19th-century American lawyers
Preston family of Virginia
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