Pickett, James C
soldier, lawyer, journalist, state legislator, was born Feb. 6, 1793, in Fauquier county, Va. In the war of 1812 he was an officer in the United States artillery, and served also in the army from 1818 to 1821. He was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1822; and secretary of the state from 1825 to 1828. He was secretary of legation to Columbia from 1829 to 1833. He was commissioner of the United States patent office in 1835; was fourth auditor of the treasury from 1835 to 1838; and was minister to Ecuador in 1838. He was charge d'affaires to Peru from 1838 to 1845. He died July 10, 1872, in Washington.