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Senate Years of Service: 1841-1847 Party: Whig
ARCHER, William Segar, (nephew of Joseph Eggleston),
a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at The Lodge,
Amelia County, Va., March 5, 1789; received private instruction; graduated from
William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1806; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1810 and practiced in Amelia and Powhatan Counties; served four
terms in the State house of delegates between 1812 and 1819; elected to the
Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James
Pleasants; reelected to the Seventeenth and to the six succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1820-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834
to the Twenty-fourth Congress; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs
(Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses); elected as a Whig to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1847; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1846; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations
(Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs
(Twenty-seventh Congress); resumed the practice of law; died at The Lodge, in
Amelia County, Va., March 28, 1855; interment in a private cemetery at The
Lodge."
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography.
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