Cabell

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Cabell is both a surname and a given name. The Cabell family has "been prominent in Virginia since the American Revolution." Notable people with the name include:

Surname

Agnes Sarah Bell Cabell (1783–1863), First Lady of Virginia from 1805 to 1808
Ben E. Cabell (1858–1931), American attorney and mayor of Dallas
Charles P. Cabell (1903–1971), United States Air Force general and Deputy Director of the CIA
DeRosey Caroll Cabell (1861–1924), United States Army major general
Earle Cabell (1906–1975), American politician
Edward C. Cabell (1816–1896), American politician
Enos Cabell (born 1949), American Major League Baseball player
George Cabell (1836–1906), American politician
George Cabell (physician) (1766–1823), physician from Virginia
Jake Cabell, American college football coach and former player
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958), American author of fantasy fiction
James Lawrence Cabell (1813–1889), American doctor and author
Joseph Carrington Cabell (1778–1856), American politician
Mary Barnes Cabell (1815–1900), American freedwoman who married her former owner
Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell (1839–1930), vice president presiding of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Mike Cabell (born 1985), American politician
Nicole Cabell (born 1977), American opera singer
Richard Cabell (died 1677), Englishman believed to be the inspiration for Hugo Baskerville in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
Samuel I. Cabell (1802–1865), Virginia plantation owner who may have been murdered for marrying one of his former slaves
Samuel Jordan Cabell (1756–1818), American Revolutionary War officer, planter and politician
William Cabell (disambiguation)

Given name

Cabell R. Berry (1848–1910), American politician
Cabell Breckinridge (1788–1823), American lawyer, soldier, slaveholder and politician
Cab Calloway (1907–1994), American jazz singer and bandleader
W. Cabell Greet (1901–1972), American philologist and English professor
Cabell Tennis (born 1932), American former Episcopalian Bishop of Delaware

References

Neal, Steve. (June 2010). "Happy Days are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR - and How America Was Changed Forever".

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