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John Floyd (April 24, 1783 – August 17, 1837) was an American politician and military officer. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 25th governor of Virginia.
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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.
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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 (born June 1, 1806, Montgomery county, Va., U.S.—died Aug. 26, 1863, Abingdon, Va.) was an American politician who served as governor of Virginia, secretary of war, and Confederate general.
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22 de dez. de 2021 · 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).
A Democrat, Floyd sat in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1847 to 1849, and served as governor of Virginia from 1849 to 1852. He then retired from politics and resumed his law practice, but soon returned to the public arena as a state delegate from 1855 to 1856.
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.
