Thomas R. Carskadon
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Born in Hampshire County in 1837, the son of a slave owner, he fled Virginia after secession but was elected the youngest member of the Constitutional Convention in 1861. He later served as US assessor, a presidential elector for Grant and Hayes, and in 1888 was Prohibition Party candidate for governor.
Also a farmer and stockman, he died at his home, Radical Hill, in 1905.
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