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John Buchanan Floyd (June 1, 1806 – August 26, 1863) was the 31st Governor of Virginia, U.S. Secretary of War, and the Confederate general in the American Civil War who lost the crucial Battle of Fort Donelson.
John Buchanan Floyd (1 de junho de 1806 — 26 de agosto de 1863) foi um político estadunidense. Foi governador do estado da Virgínia (de 1849 a 1852), Secretário da Guerra dos Estados Unidos (de 1857 a 1860) e general do exército confederado que perdeu a importante batalha do Forte Donelson durante a guerra civil dos Estados ...
John Buchanan Floyd, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of War and Confederate General, was born June 1, 1806, near Blacksburg, Virginia. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1829 and moved to Helena, Arkansas, where he practiced law and lost a considerable amount of money in an ill-fated cotton planting venture.
22 de dez. de 2021 · SUMMARY. John B. Floyd was governor of Virginia (1849–1852), secretary of war in the administration of United States president James Buchanan (1857–1860), and a Confederate general during the American Civil War (1861–1865). As governor, he helped usher in the apportionment and suffrage reforms proposed by the constitutional ...
12 de jan. de 2024 · John Buchanan Floyd was an American politician and military officer who served as the Governor of Virginia, and a United States Congressman. In 1860, U.S. President James Buchanan ordered Floyd to resign as the Secretary of War after officials investigated him for transferring arms and ammunition to Southern states prior to the Civil ...
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John Buchanan Floyd. JOHN BUCHANAN FLOYD was born in Smithfield, Virginia, on 1 June 1806; was educated by gifted parents, was probably a student at Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., before transferring to South Carolina College, from which he graduated in 1829; married Sally Preston in 1830; entered the practice of law at Wytheville, Virginia; moved to Arkansas to take up cotton planting ...
U.S. Presidents. James Buchanan. John B. Floyd (1857–1860) John Buchanan Floyd was born in 1806 in what is now Blacksburg, Virginia. The son of a noted Virginia politician, Floyd attended Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) and graduated from the College of South Carolina (now the University of South Carolina) in 1826.
