Blair, Francis Preston , 1821–75, American Political Leader
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...PRESTON , 1821 75, American political leader 1821 75, American political leader and Union general in the Civil War, b. Lexington...Congressman (1857 59; June, 1860; 1861 62). In Congress he attacked slavery as harmful to the interests of poor whites and became an energetic...