Archibald Austin

Democratic Republican Representative of Virginia's 16th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

August 11, 1772 (65 years old)

Birthday

October 16, 1837

Death

19th-century slave owner, politician, and lawyer
Served as a member of the 15th United States Congress
Practiced law in Buckingham County, Virginia, with his office on his family’s slave plantation
Married to Grace R. Booker with three children
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1815 to 1817
Elected as a Democratic-Republican, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819
Voted on 88 total bills and resolutions during his time in Congress
Did not seek re-election in 1818
Resumed law practice after Congress
Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836
Returned to the House of Delegates in 1835, serving until his death in 1837
Died near Buckingham and was interred in the family cemetery
Legal papers sold to the College of William and Mary, housed in the Swem Library, valuable for research in court records of the period due to many court records being burned in a courthouse fire in 1869