Florida Founder William P. DuVal: Frontier Bon Vivant

James M Denham

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2015

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Each day thousands of revelers trudge down DuVal Street in Florida?s Key West, but few know for whom the street is named. In Florida Founder William P. DuVal, James M. Denham provides the first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America. The scion of a well-to-do Richmond, Virginia, family, William Pope DuVal (1784?1854) migrated to the Kentucky frontier as a youth in 1800. Settling in Bardstown, DuVal read law, served in Congress, and fought in the War of 1812.In 1822, largely because of the influence of his lifelong friend John C. Calhoun, President James Monroe appointed DuVal the first civil governor of the newly acquired Territory of Florida. Enjoying successive appointments from the Adams and Jackson administrations, DuVal founded Tallahassee and presided over the territory?s first twelve territorial legislative sessions, years that witnessed Middle Florida?s development into one of the Old Southwest?s most prosperous slave-based economies. Beginning with his personal confrontation with Miccosukee chief Neamathla in 1824 (an episode commemorated by Washington Irving), DuVal worked closely with Washington officials and oversaw the initial negotiations with the Seminoles.A perennial political appointee, DuVal was closely linked to national and territorial politics in antebellum America. Like other ?Calhounites? who supported Andrew Jackson?s rise to the White House, DuVal became a casualty of the Peggy Eaton Affair and the Nullification Crisis. In fact he was replaced as Florida governor by Mrs. Eaton?s husband, John Eaton. After leaving the governor?s chair, DuVal migrated to Kentucky, lent his efforts to the cause of Texas Independence, and eventually returned to practice law and local politics in Florida. Throughout his career DuVal cultivated the arts of oratory and story-telling - skills essential to success in the courtrooms and free-for-all politics of the American South. Part frontiersman and part sophisticate, DuVal was at home in the wilds of Kentucky, Florida, Texas, and Washington City. He delighted in telling tall tales, jests, and anecdotes that epitomized America?s expansive, democratic vistas. Among those captivated by DuVal?s life and yarns were Washington Irving, who used DuVal?s tall tales as inspiration for his ?The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood,? and James Kirke Paulding, whose ?Nimrod Wildfire? shared Du Val?s brashness and bonhommie.…

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Florida Founder William P. DuVal: Frontier Bon Vivant
Autor
James M Denham
Verlag
University of South Carolina Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Hardback
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Englisch
ISBN-10
161117466X
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9781611174663

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