William Pope DuVal (ca. 1784–1854), attorney and public official, was the son of TJ’s old friend William DuVal. A native of Henrico County, he moved in his teens to Kentucky, settled in Bardstown, was admitted to the bar in 1804, and commanded a company of mounted rangers during the War of 1812. DuVal represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives, 1813–15, supporting the War Hawks and favoring the revival of the Bank of the United States. President James Monroe chose him as federal judge for East Florida in 1821 and, with a recommendation from John C. Calhoun, he became Florida’s first civil governor the following year, serving until Andrew Jackson removed him in 1834. Renowned for his storytelling skills, DuVal was also the model for Washington Irving’s fictional character, Ralph Ringwood. DuVal chaired the committee on the executive department at an 1838–39 state constitutional convention, and he sat in the territorial senate, 1839–42. He lost a bid to return to Congress in 1848, soon moved to Texas, and there defended slavery and states’ rights and opposed the Compromise of 1850. DuVal died on a business trip in Washington, D.C. (ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ; DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. description ends ; Robert L. Meriwether and others, eds., The Papers of John C. Calhoun [1959–2003], 5:406–7, 633; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, 1934–75, 28 vols. description ends , vols. 22–26; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 3:293, 294, 295, 4:378 [15–17 Apr. 1822, 26 Mar. 1834]; Frank L. Snyder, “William Pope DuVal: An Extraordinary Folklorist,” Florida Historical Quarterly 69 [1990]: 195–212; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 31 Mar. 1854).