FAULKNER, CHARLES J.
\fˈɔːknə], \fˈɔːknə], \f_ˈɔː_k_n_ə]\
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(1806-1884), author of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, was a U. S. Congressman from Virginia from 1851 to 1859, Minister to France from 1859 to 1861, when he was recalled as disloyal. He was a U. S. Representative from 1875 to 1877.
By John Franklin Jameson
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