John Fryall Snodgrass (March 2, 1804 – June 5, 1854) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Virginia
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.
Biography
Snodgrass was born in
Berkeley County, Virginia
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(now West Virginia) to William Snodgrass and Ann Fryatt Snodgrass. He completed preparatory studies, studied law and was
admitted to the bar
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in 1843. He began the practice of law in
Parkersburg, Virginia
Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia. Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-largest city and the largest city in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna metrop ...
. Snodgrass served as delegate to the
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850
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Backgro ...
.
Snodgrass was elected as a
Democrat
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to the
Thirty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until his death in Parkersburg (now West Virginia) on June 5, 1854.
Personal life
Snodgrass was married to Louisa Kinnaird Snodgrass and they had three children, John William Snodgrass, Kinnaird Snodgrass and Mary Louisa Snodgrass Murphy. After Louisa's death, he married Virginia Quarrier and they had one child Sarah Virginia Snodgrass.
Death and legacy
He is interred in Riverview Cemetery in Parkersburg. There is a
cenotaph
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in his honor in the
Congressional Cemetery
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in Washington, D.C.
See also
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References
External links
The Political Graveyard*
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1804 births
1854 deaths
Politicians from Parkersburg, West Virginia
Virginia lawyers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
People from Berkeley County, West Virginia
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers
People of pre-statehood West Virginia