Carter Braxton
U.S. Congressperson
1736 – 1797
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Who was Carter Braxton?
Carter Braxton was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, as well as a merchant, planter, and Virginia politician. A grandson of Robert “King” Carter, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners and slaveholders in the Old Dominion, Carter Braxton was active in Virginia's legislature for more than 25 years, generally allied with Landon Carter, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton and other conservative slaveholders.
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- Born
- Sep 16, 1736
King and Queen County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- College of William and Mary
- Died
- Oct 10, 1797
Richmond
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on July 23, 2013
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