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See also:FLOYD, See also:JOHN See also:BUCHANAN (1807–1863) , See also:American politician, was See also:born at Blacksburg, See also:Virginia, on the 1st of See also:June 1807. He was the son of John Floyd (1770–1837), a representative in See also:Congress from 1817 to 1829 and See also:governor of Virginia from 1830 to 1834. After graduating at See also:South Carolina See also:College in 1826, the son practised See also:law in his native See also:state and at See also:Helena, See also:Arkansas, and in 1839 settled in See also:Washington See also:county, Virginia, which in 1847–1849 and again in 1853 he represented in the state legislature. Meanwhile, from 1849 to 1852, he was governor of Virginia, in which position he recommended to the legislature the enactment of a law laying an import tax on the products of such states as refused to surrender fugitive slaves owned by Virginia masters. In See also:March 1857 he became secretary of See also:war in See also:President Buchanan's See also:cabinet, where his lack of administrative ability was soon apparent. In See also:December 186o, on ascertaining that Floyd had honoured heavy drafts made by See also:government See also:con-tractors in anticipation of their earnings, the president requested his resignation. Several days later Floyd was indicted for malversation in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but the See also:indictment was overruled on technical grounds. There is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that he profited by these irregular transactions; in fact he went out of the office
From Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik, by permission of Gustav See also:Fischer.
fs, Stalk-like See also:base of ovary. fu, Funicle. cha, Chalaza.
nu, Nucellus.
mi, Micropylc.
ii, inner, ie, See also:outer integument. e, Embryo-See also:sac.
ek, See also:Nucleus of embryo-sac. ei, See also:Egg-apparatus.
an, Antipodal cells.
g, See also:Style.
n, Stigma.
P, See also:Pollen-grains.
ps, Pollen-tubes.
financially embarrassed. Though he had openly opposed See also:secession before the See also:election of See also:Lincoln, his conduct after that event, especially after his See also:breach with Buchanan, See also:fell under suspicion, and he was accused of having sent large stores of government arms to See also:Southern arsenals in anticipation of the See also:Civil War. In the last days of his See also:term he apparently had such an intention, but during the See also:year 1860 the Southern States actually received less than their full See also:quota of arms. After the secession of Virginia he was commissioned a brigadier-See also:general in the Confederate service. He was first employed in some unsuccessful operations in western Virginia, and in See also:February 1862 became See also:commander of the Confederate forces at Fort See also:Donelson, from which he fled with his second in command, General See also:Gideon J. See also:Pillow, on the See also:night of February 18, leaving General See also:Simon B. See also:Buckner to surrender to General See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant. A fortnight later President See also:Davis relieved him of his command. He died at See also:Abingdon, Virginia, on the 26th of See also:August 1863.
End of Article: FLOYD, JOHN BUCHANAN (1807–1863)
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