Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. He was interred in Yeocomico Cemetery in Tucker Hill, Virginia. Robert Mayo died in Hague, Virginia, on March 29, 1896. In 1880 the household also included his father Judge Mayo and his younger brother farmer Philip Mayo, as well as household servants. They had daughters Nellie Mayo (1869–b/f 1880) and Charlotte Brown Mayo Johnson (1871–after 1893) and sons Richard Claybrook Mayo (1872–1911) and Archibald Campbell Mayo (1882–after 1917). His wife was the daughter of Richard Claybrook and his wife Charlotte Brown Claybrook. married Lucy Claybrook on December 3, 1867, in Westmoreland County. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to Congress in 1884, but again won election to the House of Delegates in 18. Mayo then returned to Virginia's Northern Neck and resumed his legal practice. However, Garrison refused to concede, and the House Committee of Elections then chose to accept the Gloucester County and Hog Island ballots, so the House voted unanimously to seat Garrison halfway through the term. Woltz, received only 168 votes.) Mayo was seated and served from March 4, 1883, until March 20, 1884. The Readjuster-controlled State Board of Canvassers then threw out the votes of Gloucester County and Hog Island (Garrison had received all 14 votes from Hog Island). Garrison of Accomack County according to the initial tally won 70 more votes than challenger Mayo. The vote was close-he was first declared the loser, then the winner and then the loser again. House of Representatives to represent Virginia's first district. In the election of 1882, Mayo ran for a seat in the U.S.
In 1881 voters in Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties elected Mayo to the Virginia House of Delegates (a part-time position), where he succeeded S. Mayo their Commonwealth's attorney (prosecutor, one of three elected offices in the county).
He opened his office in Westmoreland County's seat, Hague in 1865. was admitted to the bar and after the war returned to his legal practice in Westmoreland County and neighboring areas. Mayo was wounded at Sharpsburg and Gettysburg, and after the war practiced law in Richmond and became the treasurer of Virginia in 1872, before returning home to Westmoreland County and becoming its Commonwealth's Attorney, and eventually dying at his mansion "Auburn" in 1898. His elder brother Joseph Campbell Mayo, who graduated in VMI's class of 1852, held similar positions with the 3rd Virginia Infantry (based in Norfolk and one of the companies originally assigned to capture the abolitionist John Brown in 1858 and early in the war defended the Atlantic Coast). He received his parole at Ashland on April 27, 1865. He was later convicted at a court martial on September 10, 1863, for drunkenness and sentenced to be reduced in rank, but ended up serving throughout the Civil War (except for sick furlough that began on September 1, 1864). Mayo was elected the unit's colonel on May 1, 1862, and was wounded in the arm at Seven Pines opposing the Union Peninsular campaign. The unit was initially based at Stafford and assigned to protect the shores of the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers near most members' homes, but was told to withdraw in March 1862 before an expected advance of Union troops under General George McClellan. Mayo enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a major on May 18, 1861, and helped organize the 47th Virginia Infantry the next month with Col. His father owned 9 male and 11 female slaves in the 1850 federal census, which R.M. While teaching in Lexington, Mayo also studied law at Lexington Law School in 18. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia, in 1858, and then taught mathematics at Mount Pleasant Military Academy, Sing Sing (now Ossining), New York, and later at his alma mater. He attended private schools and briefly the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He may also have had younger brothers William Mayo and Philip Mayo.
The younger Robert Mayo had two older brothers: Dr. His grandfather Joseph Mayo and grandmother Jane Poythress Mayo had lived in Richmond, and his uncle Joseph Carrington Mayo, likewise a lawyer, would serve as Richmond's city attorney and mayor through the American Civil War. Early life and education īorn in Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1836, to Northern Neck plantation owner and Virginia judge Robert Mayo and his wife, the former Emily Ann Campbell, who had married in 1831. Robert Murphy Mayo (April 28, 1836 – March 29, 1896) was a Virginia lawyer, Confederate officer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and briefly in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Readjuster Party.
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