Cuthbert Powell was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Virginia

Virginia

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, son of Leven Powell

Leven Powell

Leven Powell, also Levin, was a United States Representative from Virginia. He was born near Manassas in Prince William County, Virginia. He studied in private schools. He was deputy sheriff of Prince William County, Virginia, before he moved to Loudoun County in 1763, where he engaged in...

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Born in Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...

, Powell completed preparatory studies. He studied law and after being admitted to the bar he practiced in Alexandria where he would eventually be elected mayor

Mayor

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Cuthbert Powell moved to Loudon County

Loudoun County, Virginia

Loudoun County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the county is estimated to be home to 312,311 people, an 84 percent increase over the 2000 figure of 169,599. That increase makes the county the fourth...

 where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He held various local offices, served in the Senate of Virginia

Senate of Virginia

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 1815-1819, and was a member of the State house of delegates in 1828 and 1829.

Powell was elected as a Whig

Whig Party (United States)

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 to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843).
He died at his Llangollen estate

Llangollen estate

Llangollen estate is an historic American horse and cattle farm located in western Loudoun County, Virginia on Trappe Rd. near Upperville at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Eight miles from the town of Middleburg, the area is home to a number of prominent Thoroughbred-breeding farms and...

 in Loudoun County near the town of Upperville, Virginia

Upperville, Virginia

Upperville is an unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States, located along U.S. Route 50 fifty miles from downtown Washington, D.C.. Founded in the 1790s along Pantherskin Creek, it was originally named Carrstown by first settler Josephus Carr...

on May 8, 1849. He was interred there in the estate's private cemetery.

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