Background
DE JARNETTE, Daniel Coleman was born on October 18, 1822 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Joseph De Jamette and a relative of the Hamptons of Virginia.
DE JARNETTE, Daniel Coleman was born on October 18, 1822 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Joseph De Jamette and a relative of the Hamptons of Virginia.
Private school, northern university.
He attended Bethany College in Bethany, Virginia (now West Virginia). De Jamette was married and had a son. He was a wealthy farmer and slaveholder prior to the Civil War.
He served in the Virginia House from 1853 to 1858 and was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1859 to 1861, where he opposed the Buchanan administration and favored secession. He was elected to the Thirty-Seventh Congress but did not serve. During the war, he represented the Eighth Congressional District of Virginia in the first and second Confederate Houses.
As a congressman, De Jamette opposed the conscription of foreigners. A Davis administration supporter, he served on the Foreign Affairs, Medical Department, and Conference Committees. When the war ended, he returned to Caroline County and farmed.
He never again held public office. De Jamette arbitrated the boundary between Maryland and Virginia in 1871.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.