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==Biography==

==Biography==

Drew was a son of Newitt (or Newett) Drew and Sarah A. Sally Maxwell Drew,  natives of Southampton County, [[[Virginia]], who later moved to[Wilson County, [[Tennessee]]], and then northwestern Louisiana. Richard Maxwell Drew was born in his father's Overton community on [[Dorcheat Bayou]] near [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]], the [[county seat|seat of government]] of Webster Parish. The community was subsequently obliterated by [[yellow fever]]. Drew's brother, Thomas Stevenson Drew (1802-1879), who was twenty years his senior, became the [[governor]] of [[Arkansas]] in 1844.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theus50.com/arkansas/governors.php|title=State of Arkansas Governors|publisher=theus50.com|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref><ref name=arkenc>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=100|title=Thomas Stevenson Drew|publisher=''Encyclopedia of Arkansas''|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>Other sources list Thomas Drew as the third Arkansas governor because Drew's predecessor, [[Samuel Adams (governor)|Samuel Adams]], was not "governor" but the "acting governor" from April 29 to November 5, 1844, through Adams' previous role as president of the Arkansas State Senate.</ref> Thomas S. Drew was the namesake of Drew County, [[Arkansas]].<ref name=arkenc/><ref name=rmdrew>{{cite web|url= http://www.mindenmemories.org/Drew%20Family.htm|title=Richard Drew Carey (1934-2013), The Drew Family of Minden, Louisiana|publisher=mindenmemories.org|accessdate=June 5, 2011; material no longer accessible on-line}}</ref><ref>Mindenmemories.org and Mindenmemories.net were a combined large social, cultural, and historical website operated from Bellaire, [[Texas]], by Sherry Gresham Gritzbaugh, a 1955 graduate of [[Minden (Louisiana) High School|Minden High School]]. The website had historical articles on the major families involved in the settlement of Minden and Webster Parish, Louisiana.</ref>

Drew was a son of Newitt (or Newett) Drew and Sarah A. Sally Maxwell Drew,  natives of Southampton County, [[[Virginia]], who later moved to[Wilson County, [[Tennessee]]], and then northwestern Louisiana. Richard Maxwell Drew was born in his father's Overton community on [[Dorcheat Bayou]] near [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]], the [[county seat|seat of government]] of Webster Parish. The community was subsequently obliterated by [[yellow fever]]. Drew's brother, Thomas Stevenson Drew (1802-1879), who was twenty years his senior, became the [[governor]] of [[Arkansas]] in 1844.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theus50.com/arkansas/governors.php|title=State of Arkansas Governors|publisher=theus50.com|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref><ref name=arkenc>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=100|title=Thomas Stevenson Drew|publisher=''Encyclopedia of Arkansas''|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>Other sources list Thomas Drew as the third Arkansas governor because Drew's predecessor, Samuel Adams, was not "governor" but the "acting governor" from April 29 to November 5, 1844, through Adams' previous role as president of the Arkansas State Senate.</ref> Thomas S. Drew was the namesake of Drew County, [[Arkansas]].<ref name=arkenc/><ref name=rmdrew>{{cite web|url= http://www.mindenmemories.org/Drew%20Family.htm|title=Richard Drew Carey (1934-2013), The Drew Family of Minden, Louisiana|publisher=mindenmemories.org|accessdate=June 5, 2011; material no longer accessible on-line}}</ref><ref>Mindenmemories.org and Mindenmemories.net were a combined large social, cultural, and historical website operated from Bellaire, [[Texas]], by Sherry Gresham Gritzbaugh, a 1955 graduate of [[Minden (Louisiana) High School|Minden High School]]. The website had historical articles on the major families involved in the settlement of Minden and Webster Parish, Louisiana.</ref>

In 1846, R. M. Drew married the former Sarah Jessie Cleveland. At seventeen, he was already practicing law. At twenty-three in 1845, he was a district judge in Claiborne Parish (prior to the establishment of Webster Parish),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://randolphcomuseum.org/Downloads/Drew%20Bio.pdf|title=The Bettis Family and the Settlement of Pocohontas, Arkansas|publisher=randolphcomuseum.org|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/ok/PeggyAGivens/DrewFamily.html|title=Drew Family of Virginia|publisher=angelfire.com|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref> and a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1845.<ref name=rmdrew/> For the last two years of his short life, Drew was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=August 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>The state of Louisiana erroneoulsy lists Representative R. M. Drew as "R. C. Drew," the initials of his son, who did not serve in the state House.</ref>

In 1846, R. M. Drew married the former Sarah Jessie Cleveland. At seventeen, he was already practicing law. At twenty-three in 1845, he was a district judge in Claiborne Parish (prior to the establishment of Webster Parish),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://randolphcomuseum.org/Downloads/Drew%20Bio.pdf|title=The Bettis Family and the Settlement of Pocohontas, Arkansas|publisher=randolphcomuseum.org|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/ok/PeggyAGivens/DrewFamily.html|title=Drew Family of Virginia|publisher=angelfire.com|accessdate=June 11, 2011}}</ref> and a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1845.<ref name=rmdrew/> For the last two years of his short life, Drew was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=August 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>The state of Louisiana erroneoulsy lists Representative R. M. Drew as "R. C. Drew," the initials of his son, who did not serve in the state House.</ref>