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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaBRAGG, Thomas
(1810—1872)
Senate Years of Service:
1859-1861
Party:
Democrat
BRAGG, Thomas, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., November 9, 1810; attended the Warrenton Academy; graduated from Captain Partridge’s Military Academy, Middletown, Conn.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Jackson, Northampton County, N.C.; member, State house of commons 1842-1843; prosecuting attorney for Northampton County; Governor of North Carolina 1855-1859; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1859, until March 6, 1861, when he withdrew; expelled from the Senate for support of the rebellion in 1861; chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirty-sixth Congress); appointed Attorney General of the Confederate States November 21, 1861, and served two years; resumed the practice of law; died in Raleigh, N.C., January 21, 1872; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Cowper, Pulaski. “Thomas Bragg.” In Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians
. pp. 306-32. Edited by William Peele. Raleigh: North Carolina Publishing Society, 1898.
Bragg, Thomas. Thomas Bragg Diary, 1861-1862
, in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina Library. Chapel Hill: Southern Historical Collections Library, University of North Carolina, 1966. Microfilm. 1 reel and guide.
Cowper, Pulaski. “Thomas Bragg.” In Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians
, edited by William J. Peele, pp. 306-32. Raleigh: North Carolina Publishing Society, 1898.
Walton, Brian G. “Elections to the United States Senate in North Carolina, 1835-1861.” North Carolina Historical Review
53 (April 1976): 168-92.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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