Background
Botts, John Minor was born on September 16, 1802 in Dunfries, Virginia, United States. Son of Benjamin and Jane (Tyler) Botts.
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Botts, John Minor was born on September 16, 1802 in Dunfries, Virginia, United States. Son of Benjamin and Jane (Tyler) Botts.
Botts attended the common schools in Richmond, Virginia, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1830.
He moved to Henrico County, Virginia, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1833 to 1839. Botts was elected as a Whig to the United States House of Representatives in 1838, serving from 1839 to 1843. He was unsuccessful for reelection in 1842 but was elected again in 1846, serving from 1847 to 1849.
He was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs from 1847 to 1849.
Botts was once again unsuccessful for reelection in 1848 and again in 1850. He represented the city of Richmond and the counties of Charles City, Henrico, and New Kent in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 and resumed practicing law in Richmond in 1852.
Botts, who opposed President John Tyler, introduced a resolution on July 10, 1842. lieutenant levied several charges against the President and called for a nine-member committee to investigate his behavior, with the expectation of a formal impeachment recommendation.
The Botts bill, however, was tabled until the following January, when it was rejected, 127−83.
Though his candidate was unsuccessful, Botts continued to support the principles of the Constitutional Union party, and was uncompromisingly Unionist in his sentiments while his native state moved toward secession and through the American Civil War, but refused to fight against Virginia. In 1862, he was jailed without trial for his Unionist positions by the Confederate provost marshal John H. Winder. Botts was a delegate to the Southern Loyalists" Convention in 1866 before his death on January 8, 1869 in Culpeper, Virginia.
John"s grave marker reads: "He was under all circumstances an inflexible friend of the American Union.
"I know no North, no South, no East, no West. I know only my Country, my whole Country, and nothing but my Country.""
Botts was elected to the United States. House of Representatives with 55.37% of the vote, defeating Democrat Walter Doctorate. Leake.
Botts published his memoirs, The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure (1866).
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Member Virginia Legislature, 1833-1839. Member United States House of Representatives Virginia, 26th-27th, 30th congresses, 1839-1843, 47-49.
Married Mary Blair.