Confederate Congress, North Carolina Members of

by William T. Auman, 2006

[2]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 [3]	Richard C. Puryear
Allen T. Davidson	Thomas Ruffin [4]
George Davis [5]	William N. H. Smith [6]
Thomas D. S. McDowell	Abraham W. Venable [7]
John M. Morehead [8]
First Congress (18 Feb. 1862 to 17 Feb. 1864)
SENATORS	Allen T. Davidson
George Davis [5]	Burgess S. Gaither
William T. Dortch [9]	Owen R. Kenan [10]
Edwin G. Reade [11]	William Lander
REPRESENTATIVES	Thomas D. S. McDowell
Archibald H. Arrington [12]	James R. McLean
Thomas S. Ashe [13]	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 [14]	Thomas C. Fuller [15]
Burgess S. Gaither	George W. Logan
John A. Gilmer [16]	James G. Ramsey
James M. Leach [17]	William N. H. Smith
James T. Leach [18]	Josiah Turner Jr. [19]

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).

Image credit:

"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 [2].

Subjects:

Civil War (1861-1865) [20]

Politics and government [21]

UNC Press [22]

Authors:

Auman, William T. [23]

From:

Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press. [24]