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| Description | Francis Burton Craige. Library of Congress description: "Hon. F. B. Craige of N. C." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | between 1855 and 1865 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.02092. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH82- 4921 B <P&P>[P&P] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Francis Burton Craige (1811 - 1875), was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Salisbury, 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; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); 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, in July 1861; died in Concord, while attending the courts of that county, December 30, 1875; interment in Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.
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