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Wise, Henry Alexander

soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, author, was born Dec. 3, 1806, in Drummondtown, Va. He became a representative in congress, serving from 1833 to 1844, when he resigned his seat for the mission to Brazil, which post he occupied until the fall of 1847. In 1855 he was elected governor of Virginia, which office he held until 1860. He served in the great rebellion as a brigadier-general. He was the author of Seven Decades of the Union; and Memoir of John Tyler. He died Sept. 12, 1876, in Richmond, Va.