Confederate Congress, North Carolina Members of

Date: 2006

Auman, William T.;

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"North Carolina Senators and Representatives in the Confederate Congress, 1861-1865." Photographic print. View larger. Neg. 77-1227. FFP3. North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.

A total of 34 delegates from North Carolina served in the Confederate Congress: 29 in the House of Representatives and 5 in the Senate. The following table lists the delegates and the three terms of the Congress in which they served.

Provisional Congress (4 Feb. 1861 to 17 Feb. 1862)
Francis B. Craige	Richard C. Puryear
Allen T. Davidson	Thomas Ruffin
George Davis	William N. H. Smith
Thomas D. S. McDowell	Abraham W. Venable
John M. Morehead
First Congress (18 Feb. 1862 to 17 Feb. 1864)
SENATORS	Allen T. Davidson
George Davis	Burgess S. Gaither
William T. Dortch	Owen R. Kenan
Edwin G. Reade	William Lander
REPRESENTATIVES	Thomas D. S. McDowell
Archibald H. Arrington	James R. McLean
Thomas S. Ashe	William N. H. Smith
Robert R. Bridgers
Second Congress (2 May 1864 to 18 Mar. 1865)
SENATORS	REPRESENTATIVES
William T. Dortch	Robert R. Bridgers
William A. Graham	Thomas C. Fuller
Burgess S. Gaither	George W. Logan
John A. Gilmer	James G. Ramsay
James M. Leach	William N. H. Smith
James T. Leach	Josiah Turner Jr.

References:

Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. Beringer, The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress (1972).

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (1975).

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"North Carolina Senators and Representatives in the Confederate Congress, 1861-1865." Photographic print. View larger. Neg. 77-1227. FFP3. North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Online at http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/civilwar/77-1227lg.JPG.

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