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Caperton, Allen Taylor

state legislator, congressman, state senator, was born Nov. 21, 1810, in Union, Va. He served in the legislature of Virginia a number of years; in 1861 was a member of the state convention to consider the impending troubles, and took the side of the union, but when the state went out of the union he sided with the south. In 1863 he was elected to the confederate senate; was pardoned by President Johnson after the war; and in 1875 was elected a senator in congress from West Virginia.

He died July 25, 1876, in Washington, D. C.