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Line 1: {{short description\|American politician}} '''Willoughby Newton''' (December 2, 1802 – May 23, 1874) was a nineteenth-century congressman and lawyer from [[Virginia]]. Line 8 ⟶ 10: [[File:Burial of Latane.jpg\|thumb\|Burial of William D. Latané, C.S.A., on Summer Hill Plantation]] #William Brockenbrough Newton (15 April 1832 – 11 October 1863); Capt. of the [[4th Virginia Cavalry]] (C.S.A.) killed at Raccoon Ford. He was a red hot secessionist delegate in the General Assembly from Hanover County before the war. The famous painting "The Burial of Latane" was of the burial at his home, "Summer Hill", in Hanover which remains in the family. #Sarah Newton (b. 1833) ; married doctor Philip Smith #Mary Willoughby Newton (b. 1835); died young #Willoughby Newton III (1837 – 20 June 1897); married Elizabeth Lewis Marshall (1841–1888) Line 16 ⟶ 18: #Edward Colston Newton (b. 1845; died 1913); married Lucy Yeats Tyler, daughter of Wat Henry Tyler and niece of President John Tyler. His son, Blake Tyler Newton, owned the homeplace "Linden" and was the state senator who cast the vote that broke "massive resistance". ECN has four living great grandsons, one of whom was Commonwealth's Attorney for Westmoreland County (ECN IV) and another who was a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (Charles Marshall Davison). He also has six living great-granddaughters. He died at his family's estate, "Linden" in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia]] on May 23, 1874, and was ~~interned~~interred there in a private cemetery.▼ The life of Willoughby Newton's three times great grandson, Master Sergeant Edward C. Newton V, was celebrated by a joint resolution of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate in 2019. The resolution noted his 14 combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. ▲He died at his family's estate, "Linden" in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia]] on May 23, 1874 and was interned there in a private cemetery. ==Career== Newton received a liberal ~~educatie times great grandson on~~education from private teachers as a child and went on to attend the [[College of William and Mary]]. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]. He was a member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] from 1826 to 1832 and was later elected a [[Whig Party (United States)\|Whig]] to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1842, serving from 1843 to 1845. After failing to be reelected, Newton resumed practicing law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was president of the Virginia Agricultural Society in 1852. He delivered an important and strongly pro-slavery and pro-secession speech before the literary societies of the [[Virginia Military Institute]] in 1858. Newton returned to the House of Delegates in 1861, serving until 1863. ==External links== Line 38: {{s-end}} {{bioguide}} {{VirginiaRepresentatives08}} {{authority control}} Line 45: [[Category:1874 deaths]] [[Category:Members of the Virginia House of Delegates]] [[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia]]▼ [[Category:Virginia lawyers]] [[Category:People of Virginia in the American Civil War]] [[Category:College of William & Mary alumni]] ▲[[Category:~~Members~~Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia]] [[Category:Virginia Whigs]]▼ ~~[[Category:Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives]]~~ [[Category:Brockenbrough family of Virginia]] [[Category:People from Westmoreland County, Virginia]] [[Category:19th-century American ~~politicians~~legislators]] ▲[[Category:19th-century Virginia ~~Whigs~~politicians]]