| Louis Trezevant Wigfall (1816-1874) (705 words) |
 | Wigfall attended the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, was admitted to the bar in 1839, and commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C. Wigfall moved to Marshall, Tex., in 1848, was elected a member of the State house of representatives 1849-1850 and a member of State senate 1857-1860. |
| Wigfall was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Pinckney Henderson and served from December 5, 1859, until March 23, 1861, when he withdrew. |
| Wigfall was among a group of leading secessionists that became known as the Fire-Eaters, advocating the preservation and expansion of a aristocratic agricultural society based on slave labor. |
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