Goochland-Lynchburg City-Richmond City County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Pleasants, John Hampden 1797 - 1846
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Pleasants, John Hampden, journalist, b. in Goochland county, Va., 4 Jan., 1797;
d. in Richmond, Va., 27 Feb., 1846, was educated at William and Mary college,
and was admitted to the bar at an early age, but abandoned law for journalism,
and founded and became editor of the Lynchburg "Virginian." He subsequently
removed to Richmond, Va., and in 1824 founded the "Constitutional Whig and
Public Advertiser," and was its chief editor for twenty-two years. He was killed
in a duel with Thomas Ritchie, Jr., of the "Richmond Enquirer," a Democratic
organ. Mr. Pleasants was a brilliant editor and paragraphist, and his journal
was the principal exponent of the Whig party in Virginia. His brother Whigs
erected a monument to his memory, on which his gallant and self-sacrificing
patriotism is recorded.

Additional Comments:
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Biography, Vol. V Pickering-Sumter; 1900
Son of James Pleasants,
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