STUART, ALEXANDER H. H.
\stjˈuːət], \stjˈuːət], \s_t_j_ˈuː_ə_t]\
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(1807-1891), represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress as a Whig from 1841 to 1843. He was Secretary of the Interior in Fillmore's Cabinet from 1850 to 1853. He was a member of the Virginia Senate from 1857 to 1861, and zealously opposed the policy of secession. He was a delegate to the National Union Convention at Philadelphia in 1866.
By John Franklin Jameson
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tinctura quininae ammoniata
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