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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Chapters: Robert William Hughes, List of Judges of the United States District Court for the Districts of Virginia, Philip Pendleton Barbour, Leonie Brinkema, John Y. Mason, Gerald Bruce Lee, T. S. Ellis, Iii, Peter Vivian Daniel, John Curtiss Underwood, Robert R. Merhige, Jr., John D. Butzner, Jr., Edmund Waddill, Jr., James Dandridge Halyburton, Anthony John Trenga, Robert G. Doumar, Walter Kelley, Albert Vickers Bryan, Duncan Lawrence Groner, Rebecca Beach Smith, Henry E. Hudson, Walter Edward Hoffman, Albert Vickers Bryan Jr., James C. Cacheris, James R. Spencer, Charles Sterling Hutcheson, David Dortch Warriner, Robert Nelson Pollard, Jerome B. Friedman, George Hay, John Ashton Mackenzie, Richard Leroy Williams, Claude M. Hilton, Raymond Alvin Jackson, Joseph Calvitt Clarke Jr., Liam O'grady, Richard Boykin Kellam, Henry Coke Morgan, Jr., Mark Steven Davis, Luther B. Way, Oren Ritter Lewis, Robert E. Payne. Excerpt: Robert William Hughes (January 16, 1821 - December 10, 1901) was a Virginia newspaperman, lawyer, and federal judge. Born at Muddy Creek Plantation in Powhatan County, Virginia, Hughes was of an old Virginia family, whose ancestors came to the area of Powhatan County before 1700, when it was still Goochland County. He attended Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, North Carolina, then studied law in Fincastle, Virginia. In 1850, at the Governor's mansion, Hughes married Joseph E. Johnston's niece, Eliza M. Johnston, who was the adopted daughter of then-Governor John B. Floyd. Hughes practiced law in Richmond from 1846-1853. Among his acquaintances in Richmond was Edgar Allan Poe. Hughes's son, Robert M. Hughes, was a distinguished Virginia lawyer, and one of the early presidents of the Virginia Bar Association. From 1850 to 1866, he contributed to a series of newspapers in Richmond and Washington, ...
