Thomas Sherwood Haymond (January 15, 1794 – April 5, 1869) was a prominent lawyer and
United States Congressman
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(1849–51) from
Western Virginia (now West Virginia).
Biography
The grandson of
Major William Haymond, Haymond was born in 1794 in
Fairmont, West Virginia
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to William Haymond Jr. and Cynthia Carroll. He attended private schools as a child and went on to attend the
College of William and Mary
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. He served as a
private
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in the
War of 1812
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, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1815, commencing practice in
Morgantown. He was president of the county court of the newly formed
Marion County in 1842 before being elected as a
Whig to the
United States House of Representatives
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to fill a vacancy in 1849, serving until 1851.
Haymond was a
brigadier general
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in the
Virginia Militia and, at the outbreak of the
Civil War
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in 1861, entered the
Confederate Army
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as a
colonel
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, serving throughout the war.
Haymond died in
Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars)
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, on April 5, 1869 and was interred in Palatine Cemetery near Fairmont.
External links
Retrieved on 2008-10-19
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1794 births
1869 deaths
Virginia lawyers
College of William & Mary alumni
Confederate States Army officers
People of West Virginia in the American Civil War
People of Virginia in the American Civil War
Lawyers from Fairmont, West Virginia
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
19th-century American politicians
Politicians from Fairmont, West Virginia
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