Critcher, John
soldier, planter, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 11, 1820, in Westmoreland county, Va. He received his education at Brent's Classical school, the university of Virginia, and the university of France. He is a successful planter and lawyer of his native state at Alexandria, and Washington, D. C. He has been commonwealth attorney of his county; twice a member of the state senate of Virginia; was a member of the secession convention of Virginia in 1861; served as lieutenant-colonel of the fifteenth Virginia cavalry during the civil war; and commanded the Lomax brigade at Cold Harbor. He has been judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Virginia, and was a member of the forty-second congress of the United States. For the last eighteen years he has practiced law in the city of Washington, D. C.; and in the seventy-fifth year of his age his cash professional receipts amounted to nearly forty thousand dollars.