While serving as Minister to Brazil, an eventual governor of this state was fired after causing a diplomatic dispute by refusing to order a U.S. ship to fire a salute on Pedro II's ("the second's") birthday. A jurist from this state who supported gradual emancipation adapted Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England to an American context and was named St. George Tucker. During the Civil War, this state was governed by Henry A. Wise. Annette Gordon-Reed won a Pulitzer for her biography (10[2])of a family that lived in this state. (10[1])In 1785, an eventual president from this state responded to François Barbé-Marbois (bar-BAY-mar-BWAH) with a series of ■END■