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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaCharles Laban ABERNETHY
(1872-1955)
ABERNETHY, Charles Laban,
a Representative from North Carolina; born in Rutherford College,
Burke County, N.C., March 18, 1872; attended the public schools,
Mount Olive (N.C.) High School, and Rutherford College; moved to
Beaufort, Carteret County, N.C., in 1893; founded the Beaufort
Herald in 1893; studied law at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice
in Beaufort, N.C.; solicitor of the third (later the fifth)
judicial circuit for twelve years; member of the State Democratic
executive committee 1898-1900; moved to New Bern, N.C., in 1913 and
continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Samuel M. Brinson; reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five
succeeding Congresses and served from November 7, 1922, to January
3, 1935; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed
the practice of law until his retirement in 1938; died in New Bern,
N.C., February 23, 1955; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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