History of Middlesex County Virginia United States of America

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Robert Latane Montague, jurist, was born at Ellaslee, Middlesex county, Va., May 23, 1819; son of Lewis Brooke and Catherine Street (Jesse) Montague; grandson of Lewis and Catherine (Brooke) Montague, and of John and Elizabeth (Street) Jesse, and a descendant of Peter Montague, who came from Boveney, Parish of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, to America in 1621, and when he reached his majority in 1624 engaged in planting, first at James City and subsequently in Upper Norfolk county, Va. Robert was educated at Fleetwood academy, King and Queen county; studied law under Judge Lomax at Fredericksburg, Va., and was graduated LL.B. at the College of William and Mary in 1842, pursuing a post-graduate course at that institution in 1842. He settled in practice in Middlesex county, and stumped the state for Polk and Dallas in the presidential campaign of 1844. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1850-52; a Democratic presidential elector in 1853 and 1857, and was a commonwealth attorney of Middlesex county for several years. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Virginia on the ticket with Gov. John Letcher in 1860; was president of the Virginia secession convention in 1861; a member of the executive council to organize the Virginia troops for service in the Confederate army and to appoint officers, and was a representative in the Confederate congress, 1863-65. He represented Middlesex county in the house of delegates in 1873; and was judge of the eighth judicial district of Virginia, 1875-80. He was moderator of the General Baptist association of Virginia for several years. He was married, Dec. 14, 1852, to Cordelia Gay, daughter of Joseph C. Eubank of Essex county, Va. He died in Middlesex county, Va., March 2, 1880.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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