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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaBRANCH, John
(1782—1863)
Senate Years of Service:
1823-1825; 1825-1829
Party:
Crawford Republican; Jacksonian
BRANCH, John, (uncle of Lawrence O’Bryan Branch and great-uncle of William Augustus Blount Branch), a Senator and a Representative from North Carolina; born in Halifax, Halifax County, N.C., November 4, 1782; appointed commissioner for valuation of lands and dwellings and enumeration of slaves, third district of North Carolina 1799; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1801; studied law; admitted to the bar; member, State senate 1811-1817, 1822, serving as speaker 1815-1817; Governor of North Carolina 1817-1820; appointed Federal judge for the western district of Florida by President James Monroe 1822; elected to the United States Senate in 1822; reelected in 1829, and served from March 4, 1823, to March 9, 1829, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Twentieth Congress); appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Andrew Jackson and served from March 9, 1829, until his resignation, effective May 12, 1831, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-second Congress and served from May 12, 1831, to March 3, 1833; was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; member of the State constitutional convention in 1835; appointed Governor of Florida by President John Tyler and served from June 21, 1844, until the election of a Governor under the State constitution in 1845; died in Enfield, Halifax County, N.C., January 3, 1863; interment in the family burial ground.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Haywood, Marshall Delancey. John Branch: 1782-1863.
Raleigh, NC: Commercial Printing Co., 1915; Hoffmann, William S. “John Branch and the Origins of the Whig Party in North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review
35 (July 1958): 299-315.
Haywood, Marshall DeLancey. John Branch: 1782-1863
. Raleigh, NC: Commercial Printing Co., 1915. Reprinted from North Carolina Booklet (October 1915).
Hoffmann, William S. “John Branch and the Origins of the Whig Party in North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review
35 (July 1958): 299-315.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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