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See also: HUNTER, See also:ROBERT See also:MERCER TALIAFERRO (r8o9-1887) , See also:American statesman, was See also:born in See also:Essex See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 21st of See also:April 1809. He entered the university of Virginia in his seventeenth See also:year and was one of its first graduates; he then studied See also:law at the See also:Winchester (Va.) Law School, and in 1830 was admitted to the See also:bar. From 1835 to 1837 he was a member of the Virginia See also:house of delegates; from 1837 to 1843 and from 1845 to 1847 was a member of the See also:national house of representatives, being See also:Speaker from 1839 to 1841; and from 1847 to 1861 he was in the See also:senate, where he was chairman of the See also:finance See also:committee (1850-1861). He is credited with having brought about a reduction of the quantity of See also:silver in the smaller coins; he was the author of the See also:Tariff See also:Act of 1857 and of the bonded-warehouse See also:system, and was one of the first to See also:advocate See also:civil service reform. In 1853 he declined See also:President See also:Fillmore's offer to make him secretary of See also:state. At the National Democratic See also:Convention at See also:Charleston, S.C., in r86o he was the Virginia delegation's choice as See also:candidate for the See also:presidency of the See also:United States, but was defeated for the nomination by See also:Stephen A. See also:Douglas. Hunter did not regard See also:Lincoln's See also:election as being of itself a sufficient cause for See also:secession, and on the 11th of See also:January 1861 he proposed an elaborate but impracticable See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for the See also:adjustment of See also:differences between the See also:North and the See also:South, but when this and several other efforts to the same end had failed he quietly urged his own state to pass the See also:ordinance of secession. From 1861 to 1862 he was secretary of state in the See also:Southern Confederacy; and from 1862 to 1865 was a member of the Confederate senate, in which he was, at times, a See also:caustic critic of the See also:Davis See also:administration. He was one of the commissioners to treat at the See also:Hampton Roads See also:Conference in 1865 (see LINCOLN, See also:ABRAHAM), and after the surrender of See also:General See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee was summoned by President Lincoln to See also:Richmond to confer regarding the restoration of Virginia in the See also:Union. From 1874 to 188o he was treasurer of Virginia, and from 1885 until his See also:death near Lloyds, Virginia, on the 18th of See also:July 1887, was See also:collector of the See also:Port of Tappahannock, Virginia.
See Martha T. Hunter, A Memoir of Robert M. T. Hunter (Washing-ton, 1903) for his private See also: life, and D. R. See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, in the See also:John P. See also:Branch See also:Historical Papers of See also:Randolph See also:Macon See also:College (vol. ii. No. 2, 1906), for his public career.
End of Article: HUNTER, ROBERT MERCER TALIAFERRO (r8o9-1887)
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