Briscoe Baldwin
Briscoe Baldwin was born in Winchester, Virginia, United States on January 18th, 1789 and is the American Politician. At the age of 63, Briscoe Baldwin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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After admission to the Virginia bar, Baldwin began a private legal practice in Staunton, the county seat of Augusta County.
Augusta County voters elected him to represent them in the Virginia House of Delegates four times, beginning in December 1818, when he and Andrew Anderson replaced the incumbents and were both re-elected in 1819, but neither won in 1820. Baldwin won election again to that part-time position in 1822 and served alongside Daniel Sheffey, but neither won re-election the following year. Baldwin again won election in 1841, but failed to complete his term, resigning after fellow legislators appointed him to a vacant seat on the Virginia Court of Appeals. During his last term, Baldwin proposed to move the state Capital from Richmond to Staunton, as more centrally located, although such was not adopted.
During his legislative service and private legal career, Baldwin continued his military service leading Augusta county's militia, and eventually attained the rank of Major-General of Virginia militia. Judge Baldwin also delivered the oration at the celebration at the Jamestown Jubilee in 1822.
During Virginia's great debates over representation of western Virginia and the future of slavery in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830, Baldwin represented Augusta and adjacent Rockbridge and Pendleton counties alongside Chapman Johnson, William McCoy and Samuel McD Moore. He served on the Convention's Judicial Committee. Beginning in 1831, Baldwin also began a law school in his Staunton home.
On January 29, 1842, fellow delegates elected Baldwin to fill a vacancy on the Virginia Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. He held this position until his death.