12 Facts About Joseph Segar

Joseph Eggleston Segar was a Virginia lawyer, plantation owner, hotelier, and politician who was twice elected as a US Representative from Virginia during the American Civil War.

Joseph Segar engaged in frequent correspondence with President Abraham Lincoln.

Joseph Segar's farm, known as Roseland, became an indispensable Union stronghold during the Civil War.

The day after Virginia's secession on May 23,1861, Joseph Segar complied with Union forces at Fort Monroe and his entire 447-acre property was taken for Union use.

Joseph Segar presented credentials as a Unionist Member-elect to the Thirty-seventh Congress from an election held on October 24,1861, but the House on February 11,1862, decided he was not entitled to the seat.

Joseph Segar was elected to the same Congress and served from March 15,1862, to March 3,1863.

Joseph Segar presented credentials, but was declared not entitled to the seat by resolution of May 17,1864, though he was paid for mileage and pro-rated salary.

On January 25,1870, in the Forty-first Congress, Joseph Segar claimed an at-large ninth seat for Virginia in the US House, but was not seated.

Joseph Segar was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Joseph Segar found himself in a dire financial situation after the war.

Joseph Segar died on a steamer while en route from Norfolk, Virginia, to Washington, DC, on April 30,1880.

Joseph Segar was interred in St John's Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia, where his widow joined him eight years later.