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Elisha Young Fair (July 2, 1809 – December 23, 1886) was a lawyer and minister to Belgium under president James Buchanan from his appointment on June 14, 1858 through May 8, 1861. Fair lived in Montgomery, Alabama where he also worked as a lawyer. He was a delegate at Alabama's 1865 Constitutional Convention. While he was serving in Belgium, Henry Hotze served in Brussels.

Fair was the son of William Fair (1770-1851) and Elizabeth (Young) Fair (1774-1854). He was part of South Carolina College's class of 1834. He married Martha Ann Cornelia Wyatt April 21, 1849. Fair's grandson, James Quinton Smith, served as Attorney General of Alabama.

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  1. State, United States Dept of (May 15, 1933). "Biographic Register". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  2. "Elisha Young Fair - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  3. ^ Muhlenfeld, El; Chesnut, Mary Boykin; Woodward, Comer Vann; Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth; Woodward, Former Sterling Professor of History C. Vann (1984). The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries. Oxford University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-19-503513-1.
  4. ^ "The Political Graveyard: Farmer Politicians in Alabama". politicalgraveyard.com.
  5. Fair, Marielou Roach (May 15, 1951). Roach, Roberts, Ridgeway, and Allied Families. Books on Demand. ISBN 9780598998446 – via Google Books.
  6. History, Alabama Department of Archives and (May 15, 1908). "Alabama Official and Statistical Register". Brown Printing Company – via Google Books.
  7. Long, Renata Eley (August 15, 2017). In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the American Civil War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781612518374 – via Google Books.
  8. Carolina, University of South (May 15, 1905). "Roll of Students of South Carolina College, 1805-1905" – via Google Books.
  9. "Alabama Department of Archives and History: Alabama Attorneys General--James Quinton Smith". archives.alabama.gov.


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