Wyndham Robertson
Wyndham Robertson was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States on January 26th, 1803 and is the Governor Of Virginia. At the age of 85, Wyndham Robertson 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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Admitted to the Virginia bar in 1824, Robertson made a short trip to Paris and London three years later. In 1830 legislators elected him to Virginia's Council of State, where his late father had sat. Robertson was re-elected to the Council of State in 1833. In 1834, at the first meeting of the James River Canal Company, Robertson suggested that instead of constructing a canal to Lynchburg and attempting to extend it across the Appalachian Mountains to the Kanawha River, the company instead construct a railroad, which could ultimately continue to the Mississippi River.
On March 31, 1836, Robertson became the Council of State's senior member, and therefore Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia. When Governor Littleton Waller Tazewell resigned that same day, Robertson became (acting) governor. Since the Virginia General Assembly, which elected the Governor, was Democratic, and he, being a Whig, was not, Robertson was not elected Governor when that term expired in 1837, and was replaced by David Campbell. Richmond voters then elected Robertson as their representative in the Virginia House of Delegates for the 1838 session; he replaced Robert Stanard whom legislators elected to the Court of Appeals. Richmond voters re-elected Robertson for three successive sessions, until 1841, when Raleigh T. Daniel replaced him as Richmond's delegate.
In 1841, Robertson moved to his wife's home, "Mary's Meadows", just south of Abingdon, in southwest Virginia and farmed. He was made a Justice of the Peace for Washington County on July 25, 1842, and a trustee of Abingdon Academy in 1843, shortly before his father-in-law's death. In 1849, Robertson chaired a meeting to elect delegates to extend the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to town. In 1850, Robertson leased the King Saltworks for five years. Thomas L. Preston had leased them the previous years and would again lease them in 1858. Salt production in those days using enslaved labor to keep fires burning to evaporate brine, and the salines which came to be run by Stuart, Palmer and Parker by 1863 helped supply much of the salt required by the Southern States.
