Frank S. Blair

Frank S. Blair (1839 – January 14, 1899) was a Virginia lawyer who served as Attorney General of Virginia.

The son of Tennessee congressman John Blair,[1] Frank Blair was an officer in the Confederate Army, then practiced law in Wythe County, Virginia.

As the Readjuster Party candidate for Attorney General in 1881, Blair was elected despite the emergence during the campaign of forged letters, containing racist remarks, said to have been written by him. The forgery was revealed prior to Election Day.[2] Blair's term as Attorney General coincided with the governorship of William E. Cameron.

In 1885, Blair lost the nomination for governor, ran for re-election as attorney general, and was defeated by the Democrat Rufus A. Ayers.[3]

Blair attended the Republican National Conventions in 1884[4] and 1888.[5]

President Benjamin Harrison resisted efforts to have Blair named Solicitor General of the United States.[6]

Notes and references
  1. Preston, Thomas Wilson (1947). Some Famous Civilians of Southwestern Virginia. King Print. Co. (accessed via Google Books).
  2. "THE BLAIR LETTERS.; AN ALLEGED CONFESSION THAT THEY WERE FORGED--A COUNTER-STATEMENT IN DENIAL, October 14, 1881" (PDF). New York Times. October 14, 1881. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
  3. "VIRGINIA'S VOTE, November 26, 1885" (PDF). New York Times. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
  4. Dawson, George Francis (1903). Official Proceedings of the Republican National Convention Held at Chicago. C.W. Johnson (accessed via Google Books).
  5. Spottsworth, Ainsworth Rand (1888). An American almanac and treasury of facts. American News Co. (accessed via Google Books).
  6. McKinney, Gordon B. (1978). Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community. University of North Carolina Press (accessed via Google Books). ISBN 0-8078-1300-1.
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