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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaGeorge Edmund BADGER
(1795-1866)
Senate Years of Service:
1846-1855Party: WhigBADGER, George Edmund, a
Senator from North Carolina; born in New Bern, N.C., April 17,
1795; instructed by private teachers and attended preparatory
school at New Bern; attended Yale College in 1810 and 1811; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in New
Bern; member of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1816;
elected judge of the superior court in 1820 and served until 1825,
when he resigned; moved to Raleigh, N.C.; appointed Secretary of
the Navy in the Cabinet of President William H. Harrison, March 5,
1841, reappointed by President John Tyler, and served until
September 11, 1841, when he resigned to resume the practice of law;
elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1846 to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Haywood; reelected
in 1849 and served from November 25, 1846, to March 3, 1855; not a
candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills
(Thirty-first Congress); nominated by President Millard Fillmore as
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1853, but was not
confirmed by the Senate; returned to Raleigh and resumed the
practice of law; member of the State convention in 1861; died in
Raleigh, N.C., May 11, 1866; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; London, Lawrence F. “George Edmund Badger in
the United States Senate, 1846-1849.” North Carolina
Historical Review 15 (January 1938), 1-22; London, Lawrence F.
“George Edmund Badger, His Last Years in the United States
Senate, 1851-1855.” North Carolina Historical Review
15 (July 1938): 231-50.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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