Armistead is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *

Bill Armistead Bill Armistead (born May 29, 1944) is an American politician from the state of Alabama. He served as the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party from 2011 to 2015. He served in the Alabama Senate from 1994 to 2002, representing the 14th district ...

(born 1944), American politician from Alabama *

George Armistead George Armistead (April 10, 1780 – April 25, 1818) was an American military officer, best known as the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Early life and education Armistead was born to the former ...

(1780–1818), American military officer who served as the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 *

James Armistead James Armistead Lafayette (1748 or 1760 — 1830 or 1832) was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, and later received a legislative emancipation. As ...

, American slave and spy in the American Revolution *

Lewis Addison Armistead Lewis Addison Armistead (February 18, 1817 – July 5, 1863) was a career United States Army officer who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On July 3, 1863, as part of Pickett's Charge during ...

, Confederate Army general *

Samuel G. Armistead Samuel Gordon Armistead (August 21, 1927 – August 7, 2013) was an American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian, literary critic and professor of Spanish. He is considered one of the most notable Hispanist scholars of the second half o ...

(1927–2013), American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian and Hispanist *

Walker Keith Armistead Walker Keith Armistead (March 25, 1773 – October 13, 1845) was a military officer who served as Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Armistead was born in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia, and served as an ord ...

, United States Army brigadier general *

Wilson Armistead Wilson Armistead (30 August 181918 February 1868) was an English businessman, abolitionist and writer from Leeds. He led the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association and wrote and edited anti-slavery texts. His best known work, ''A Tribute for the Negro'' ...

, (1819–1868) British merchant, anti-slavery abolitionist and author Given name: *

Armistead Abraham Lilly Armistead Abraham "Cousin Abe" Lilly (March 25, 1878 – June 21, 1956) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. A West Virginia Republican Party, Republican, Lilly served as the 16th List of att ...

(1878–1956), American lawyer, politician, and businessperson *

Armistead Burt Armistead Burt (November 13, 1802 – October 30, 1883) was a planter, slaveholder and U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Database at Born at Clouds Creek, near Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina, Burt moved with his parents t ...

, U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1843 to 1853 *

Armistead I. Selden Jr. Armistead Inge Selden Jr. (February 20, 1921 – November 14, 1985) was a segregationist U.S. Representative from Alabama. Originally a Democrat, he switched parties in 1979 to become a Republican. Early life and military service Born in ...

, U.S. Representative from Alabama from 1953 to 1969 *

Armistead Mason Dobie Armistead Mason Dobie (April 15, 1881 – August 7, 1962) was a law professor, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and United States District ...

, legal educator and federal judge *

Armistead Maupin Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. ( ; born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for '' Tales of the City'', a series of novels set in San Francisco. Early life Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., to Diana Jane (Barton) and Armistead Jones Maup ...

, American writer *

Armistead Burwell Smith IV Armistead Burwell Smith IV (also known as Zach Smith) is an American composer and musician. He has recorded with multiple bands, including most notably Pinback, as well on his own, under the name Systems Officer. Career Early playing Smith ...

, American musician, member of Pinback *

Armistead Thomson Mason Armistead Thomson Mason (August 4, 1787February 6, 1819) was a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817. Mason was also the second-youngest person to ever serve in the US Senate, at the age of 28 and 5 months, even though the age requirement f ...

, U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817 * Armistead (c. 1820–1844), slave of US President John Tyler, killed in the USS ''Princeton'' disaster

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