Powhatan Ellis
Powhatan Ellis was born in Amherst County, Virginia, United States on January 17th, 1790 and is the United States Federal Judge. At the age of 73, Powhatan Ellis 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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Born on January 17, 1790, at Red Hill Farm in Amherst County, Virginia, Ellis graduated from Washington Academy (now Washington and Lee University) in 1809, received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1810 from Dickinson College and graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1814, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1813 to 1814 and from 1815 to 1816. He was a lieutenant in the Prevost Guards of Virginia in 1814. He resumed private practice in Natchez, Mississippi Territory in 1816. He continued private practice in Winchester, Mississippi Territory (State of Mississippi from December 10, 1817) from 1816 to 1817. He was a justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1817 to 1818 and from 1818 to 1825.
Later career and death
Ellis was appointed charge d'affaires to Mexico for the United States Department of State by President Jackson, serving from January 1836 to December 1836 when he closed the legation. He was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico for the United States Department of State by President Martin Van Buren, serving from February 1839 to April 1842. He resumed private practice in Natchez starting in 1842 and continued private practice in Richmond, Virginia until 1863. He died on March 18, 1863 in Richmond. He was interred in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond.