Archibald Atkinson (1792 - 1872)

Born 15 Sep 1792 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Husband of Elizabeth Ann (Chilton) Atkinson — married 25 Apr 1829 in Virginia

Died 7 Jan 1872 at age 79 in Smithfield, Isle of Wight, Virginia

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Biography

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Archibald Atkinson was a United States Congressman. He attended law school at William and Mary College and served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. After the war, he was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Smithfield, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates, (1815-17, 28-31) and served in the Virginia State Senate, (1839-43). In 1843, he was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses, serving until 1849. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he served as prosecuting attorney for Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and practiced law.

Sources

• Ball, Rosalie Noland. The Family Tree of Col. Leven Powell’s Line of the Powells of Virginia. Manchester, Virginia: Privately Published, 1938, pp 14, 63.
• Lucas, Rev. Silas Emmett, Jr. The Powell Families of Virginia and the South. Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1969, p 327.
• http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000328
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5139034/archibald-atkinson
• "United States Census, 1850", Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8D4-H9B : Fri Mar 08 16:19:25 UTC 2024), Entry for Archibald Atkinson and Elizabeth A Atkinson, 1850.
• "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (image 8 of 12), Virginia > Isle of Wright > Eastern District Town Smithfield, from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).