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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | F. Burton Craige |
| Address | Rowan County
Salisbury, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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March 13, 1811 |
| Died |
December 30, 1875
(64 years) |
| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Mar 13, 2022 08:42am |
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| Info | CRAIGE, Francis Burton, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., March 13, 1811; attended a private school in Salisbury, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1829; editor and proprietor of the Western Carolinian 1829-1831; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Salisbury; one of the last borough representatives in the State house of representatives 1832-1834.
U.S. Representative (D-NC) 1853-61; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-third Congress).
Delegate to the State secession convention in 1861 and introduced the ordinance of secession in the form in which it was adopted; delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States which met in Richmond, Va., in July 1861; died in Concord, Cabarrus County, N.C., while attending the courts of that county, December 30, 1875; interment in Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.
[Link] ; Biographical History of North Carolina 1:244 |
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