Ebenezer Pettigrew
U.S. Congressperson
1783 – 1848
Who was Ebenezer Pettigrew?
Ebenezer Pettigrew was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born near Plymouth, North Carolina, March 10, 1783. He studied under tutors at home and later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a charter member of the Debating Society, which became the Dialetic and Philanthropic Societies. He engaged in planting, and later became a member of the State senate in 1809 and 1810. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress, afterwards resuming his agricultural pursuits. He died at Magnolia Plantation on Lake Scuppernong, July 8, 1848 and was interred in the family cemetery.
He was the father of Confederate General J. Johnston Pettigrew.
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