Francis Burton Craige
U.S. Congressperson
1811 – 1875
Who was Francis Burton Craige?
Francis Burton Craige was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Salisbury, North Carolina, 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; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds; 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, Virginia, in July 1861; died in Concord, North Carolina, while attending the courts of that county, December 30, 1875; interment in Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina.
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- Born
- Mar 13, 1811
Salisbury - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Died
- Dec 30, 1875
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