Barnes, Brooks Miles. "The Congressional Elections of 1882 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 89 (October 1981): 467-86.
WISE, John Sergeant
About this object
1846–1913
Biography
WISE, John Sergeant, (son of Henry Alexander Wise, grandson of John Sergeant, brother of Richard Alsop Wise, and cousin of George Douglas Wise), a Representative from Virginia; born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 27, 1846, while his father was United States Minister to that country; attended preparatory schools in Goochland and Princess Anne Counties, Va., and the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1862; participated with the institute cadets in the Battle of New Market during the Civil War; subsequently became a lieutenant in the Confederate Army; was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1867; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Richmond, Henrico County, Va.; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-seventh Congress in 1880; United States attorney for the eastern district of Virginia from May 1882 to March 1883, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Readjuster to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); was not a candidate for renomination in 1884; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia in 1885; moved to New York City and engaged in the practice of his profession; died near Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., May 12, 1913; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
[ Top ]External Research Collections
College of William and Mary
Earl Gregg Swem Library
Williamsburg, VA
Papers:
1869-1873, 55 items.
Correspondence, 1869-1873, of John S. Wise concerning the application of his brother Doctor Richard A.Wise for positions as professor at the College of William and Mary, and at the University of Virginia; and as superintendent at the Central Lunatic Asylum, Richmond, Va.
Papers:
1884, 1 page.
A letter from John S. Wise to John E. Roller written on June 30, 1884. In the letter, Wise writes concerning meeting Gen. Roller in Staunton, Va.
Papers:
In the White-Garnett Papers, 1876-1893, 573 items.
Correspondents include John S. Wise.
Library of Virginia
Archives Branch
Richmond, VA
Papers:
In the Bryan Family Papers, 1679-1943.
Correspondence relating to personal, business, and congressional matters. Finding aid in repository.
University of Virginia
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections
Library
Charlottesville, VA
Papers:
In the John Cropper Papers, 1778-1814, 7 items.
Correspondents include John S. Wise.
Papers:
In the Kingston Galleries, Inc, Dealer Letters, 1846-1912, 4 items.
The papers contain one, 20 June 1891, from John Sergeant Wise to W.E. Mitchell about the morality of reading Sunday papers; letter, 2 February 1912, from John Singleton Mosby to Mrs. Garnett about miscellaneous matters of a social nature.
Papers:
In the Virginia Letters, 1818-1910, 25 items.
Correspondents include John S. Wise.
Virginia Military Institute Library
Lexington, VA
Papers:
1884-1964. 522 items.
In part copies of originals in other repositories. Family correspondence, speeches, articles, and congressional papers.
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
Papers:
In the Wise Family Papers, 1777-1983, approximately 24, 315 items.
Persons represented include John Sergeant Wise.
[ Top ]
Bibliography / Further Reading
Campbell, Otho Carlino. "John Sergeant Wise: A Case Study in Conservative-Readjuster Politics in Virginia, 1869-1889." Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1979.
Davis, Curtis C. "Very Well-Rounded Republican: The Several Lives of John S. Wise." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 71 (October 1963): 461-87.
Wise, John Sergeant. Centralization by construction. [N.p., 1907]
------. Contested election--O'Ferrall vs. Paul Speech of Hon. John S. Wise, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, Monday, May 5, 1884. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
------. Diomed; the life, travels, and observations of a dog. Boston, London and New York: N.p., 1897.
------. The end of an era. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902.
------. Family of Beverley of Berverly. New York: N.p., 1890.
------. The family of Douglass or Douglas of Garrallan in Virginia. [New York: N.p., 1894].
------. Speech of Hon. John S. Wise. New York: M. B. Brown, printer, 1887.