• Politics: Lieutenant Governor of Virginia - 1894

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Craig_Kent

Robert Craig Kent (November 28, 1828 – April 30, 1905) was an attorney and political figure from the Commonwealth of Virginia. A graduate of Princeton University, Kent was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1853 and commenced the practice of law in Wytheville. After several years of successful private practice, Kent was elected as the Commonwealth's Attorney for Wythe County, then twice to the Virginia House of Delegates. In 1894, he won election to a four year term as the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

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~ the son of Robert and Elizabeth Craig Kent ~ lawyer
~ lieutenant-governor of Virginia
~ a farmer and large landowner of Wythe county
~ a justice of the old county court of Wythe county
~ Married twice:

     * Eliza Ann Wood

     * Anastatia Pleasants Smith 

~ He had seven children
~ Education: Georgetown college in Washington, D.C. & Princeton, where he took the A. B. degree.
~ He read law in the office of Judge Andrew Fulton, of Wytheville.
~ 1853, he began the practice of law in Wytheville.
~ 1861, he was elected to represent Wythe county in the Constitutional convention, famous in history for having passed the ordinance of secession taking Virginia out of the Union. Of this convention he was the youngest member.
~ He was twice commonwealth's attorney of Wythe county
~ twice represented his county in the house of delegates of Virginia
~ once president of the electoral college of Virginia
~ served four years as lieutenant-governor of the state
~ For many years, he was president of the Farmers Bank of Wytheville, Virginia.
~ His name became a synonym of honesty and integrity all over Virginia.
~ In politics, was a Democrat
~ In religious preference, a Presbyterian

Reference: Men of Mark in Virginia (Vol. 5) 1909

Buried in East End Cemetery Per Wythe County, Virginia - A Bicentennial History by Mary B. Kegley

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