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JAMES BUCHANAN RICHMOND.

Was born in Turkey Cove, Lee county, Virginia, on
the 27th day February, 1847. Received a limited
education at Emory and Henry College. Practised
law in the circuit and county courts of Lee, Scott
and Wise counties, Virginia, and in the Court of
Appeals at Wytheville, Virginia. Held the office of orderly sergeant and
captain of Company "A," Fiftieth Virginia Infantry, during the first year

of the war, in the command of General John B. Floyd, of Virginia. Was
afterwards major of the Sixty-fourth Virginia Regiment for a time. Was
promoted to lieutenant-colonel, Sixty-fourth Virginia Regiment, some time
before the close of the war, and was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress as
a Democrat, receiving 5,120 votes, against 4,829 votes for Fayette McMullen,
Independent; 4,640 votes for Samuel W. Newberry, Independent, and 613
votes for Camp, Republican. Was a member of the House of Delegates from

Col. Abram Fulkerson

Scott county in 1873. Judge of the County Court of
Scott county for six years, beginning in the year 1885.
Advocated sound money in his candidacy for Congress
in the year 1877. Was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1901-1902. Now actively practicing law
at Gate City, Virginia.