Joseph Eve (politician): Difference between revisions

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|birth_place = [[Culpeper County, Virginia|Culpeper County]], [[Virginia]], United USAStates

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1843|06|0116|1784|07|17}}

|death_place = [[Galveston]], [[Republic of Texas]]

|occupation = PoliticianLawyer, politician

'''Joseph Eve''' (July 17, 1784 – June 1 June16, 1843) was an [[Americans|American]] politician and [[diplomat]]. He was born in [[Culpeper County, Virginia]]. As a young man he moved to [[Knox County, Kentucky]]. He married Betsey Withers Ballinger in 1811; they had no children. He was a [[lawyer]] in Kentucky and was elected to the [[Kentucky House of Representatives]] three times. He was a [[colonel]] in the [[United States Army]] during the [[War of 1812]], and later served four years as a senator in the [[Kentucky Senate]]. He was a [[circuit court]] judge for a period of ten years.

On April 15, 1841, Eve was appointed to post of [[Chargé d'affaires]] for the [[United States Ambassador to Texas|United States mission to the Republic of Texas]]. He was a strong advocate of U.S. annexation of the then-independent Republic. During this time, conflict between Texas and [[Mexico]] grew, and the provisional Republic seat of government was relocated several times. Eve moved his legation to [[Galveston, Texas]], hoping to benefit from the climate, as his [[tuberculosis]] was getting worse. However, in 1843 he was released from his assignment, succeeded by [[William S.Sumpter Murphy]] on April 3, 1843. He died soona thereafterfew months later of that ailment, on (June 1)16,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nance |first=Joseph Milton |last2=Eve |first2=Joseph |date=1939 |title=A Letter Book of Joseph Eve, United States Chargé d'Affaires to Texas |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30235884 |journal=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=196–221 |issn=0038-478X |via=JSTOR}}</ref> after which his widow relocated to their residence in Kentucky.