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HUNTER, See also:
ROBERT
ROBERT (1275—1343)
ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)
ROBERT See also:
MERCER (through Fr. mercier, from popular Lat. mercerius, a dealer, merx, merces, merchandise)
MERCER TALIAFERRO (r8o9-1887) , See also:

AMERICAN

American statesman, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Essex See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

Virginia, on the 21st of See also:

APRIL

April 1809. He entered the university of Virginia in his seventeenth See also:

YEAR

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

national house of representatives, being See also:

SPEAKER

Speaker from 1839 to 1841; and from 1847 to 1861 he was in the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate, where he was chairman of the See also:

FINANCE

finance See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee (1850-1861). He is credited with having brought about a reduction of the quantity of See also:

SILVER

silver in the smaller coins; he was the author of the See also:

TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

Tariff See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of 1857 and of the bonded-warehouse See also:

SYSTEM

system, and was one of the first to See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate See also:

CIVIL

civil service reform. In 1853 he declined See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

FILLMORE, MILLARD (1800-1874)

Fillmore's offer to make him secretary of See also:

state. At the National Democratic See also:

Convention at See also:

CHARLESTON

Charleston, S.C., in r86o he was the Virginia delegation's choice as See also:

CANDIDATE

candidate for the See also:

PRESIDENCY

presidency of the See also:

UNITED

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

secession, and on the 11th of See also:

JANUARY

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 (from late Lat. ad juxtare, derived from juxta, near, but early confounded with a supposed derivation from justus, right)

adjustment of See also:

DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

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

Southern Confederacy; and from 1862 to 1865 was a member of the Confederate senate, in which he was, at times, a See also:

CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

caustic critic of the See also:

Davis See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration. He was one of the commissioners to treat at the See also:

Hampton Roads See also:

CONFERENCE

Conference in 1865 (see LINCOLN, See also:

ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRAHAM), and after the surrender of See also:

General See also:

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

death near Lloyds, Virginia, on the 18th of See also:

JULY

July 1887, was See also:

COLLECTOR

collector of the See also:

PORT

Port of Tappahannock, Virginia. See Martha T.

Hunter, A Memoir of Robert M. T. Hunter (Washing-ton, 1903) for his private See also:

LIFE

life, and D. R. See also:

Anderson, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, in the See also:

John P. See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

Branch See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Papers of See also:

Randolph See also:

Macon See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (vol. ii. No. 2, 1906), for his public career.

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