Elisha Young Fair (July 2, 1809 – December 23, 1886) was a lawyer and minister to Belgium under president James Buchanan from his appointment on June 14, 1858 through May 8, 1861.[1][2][3] Fair lived in Montgomery, Alabama where he also worked as a lawyer.[4][3][5] He was a delegate at Alabama's 1865 Constitutional Convention.[6] While he was serving in Belgium, Henry Hotze served in Brussels.[7]
Fair was the son of William Fair (1770-1851) and Elizabeth (Young) Fair (1774-1854). He was part of South Carolina College's class of 1834.[8] He married Martha Ann Cornelia Wyatt April 21, 1849.[4] Fair's grandson, James Quinton Smith, served as Attorney General of Alabama.[9]
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edit- ^ State, United States Dept of (May 15, 1933). "Biographic Register". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ "Elisha Young Fair - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
- ^ a b Muhlenfeld, El; Chesnut, Mary Boykin; Woodward, Comer Vann; Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth; Woodward, Former Sterling Professor of History C. Vann (1984). The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries. Oxford University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-19-503513-1.
- ^ a b "The Political Graveyard: Farmer Politicians in Alabama". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ Fair, Marielou Roach (May 15, 1951). Roach, Roberts, Ridgeway, and Allied Families. Books on Demand. ISBN 9780598998446 – via Google Books.
- ^ History, Alabama Department of Archives and (May 15, 1908). "Alabama Official and Statistical Register". Brown Printing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Long, Renata Eley (August 15, 2017). In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the American Civil War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781612518374 – via Google Books.
- ^ Carolina, University of South (May 15, 1905). "Roll of Students of South Carolina College, 1805-1905" – via Google Books.
- ^ "Alabama Department of Archives and History: Alabama Attorneys General--James Quinton Smith". archives.alabama.gov.
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