Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (politician)

American politician and lawyer

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1846

Place of Birth: Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1904

Profession: teacher, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (politician)

  • Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (November 25, 1846 – January 28, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessperson in the U.S.
  • state of West Virginia.
  • Flournoy served as a state senator representing the 12th Senatorial District in the West Virginia Senate (1885–1890) and served three terms as mayor of Romney, West Virginia.
  • Flournoy unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the West Virginia Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination in 1900. Flournoy was born in 1846 in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
  • In 1863, during the American Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army and served until the war's end in 1865.
  • After graduating from Hampden–Sydney College in 1868, Flournoy taught school for four years while studying law.
  • In 1870 he relocated to Romney, West Virginia, where he served as principal of the Potomac Academy.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and afterward served on the Board of Regents for the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind (1876–1880).
  • During his second term in the West Virginia Senate, Flournoy relocated to Charleston to practice law.
  • He also engaged in several business ventures and was an incorporator of the Bank of Romney, the Tug and Guyandotte Railroad Company, the Bradford Building Company, the White Oak Mining Company, and the West Construction Company.
  • Flournoy served on the Board of Trustees of Hampden–Sydney College from 1892 until his death in 1904. Through his marriage to Frances "Fannie" Ann Armstrong White, Flournoy was a brother-in-law of West Virginia Attorney General Robert White and West Virginia Fish Commission President Christian Streit White, and the son-in-law of Hampshire County Clerk of Court John Baker White.
  • Through his father, Flournoy was a relative of Thomas Flournoy, United States Representative from Virginia.
  • Flournoy was the father of prominent Charleston lawyer Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy.

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