268:. French Strother lived on a large estate on the Culpeper/Stevensburg Road, owned slaves, and served on the vestry of St. Mark's Parish.(whose history a descendant would write). Strother also served as Presiding Justice of the Culpeper County Court for most of his adult life. His normal honorific of "Colonel" reflects his years of service leading the county militia. He also was one of the trustees of the
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Culpeper as well as represented it in the Virginia House of Delegates, becoming its speaker as well as serving as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1850, then winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a
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