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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaThomas Lanier CLINGMAN
(1812-1897)
Senate Years of Service:
1858-1861Party: DemocratCLINGMAN, Thomas Lanier, a
Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born in
Huntsville, N.C., July 27, 1812; educated by private tutors and in
the public schools in Iredell County, N.C.; graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1832; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1834 and began practice in Huntsville, N.C.;
elected to the State house of commons in 1835; moved to Asheville,
Buncombe County, N.C., in 1836; member, State senate 1840; elected
as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,
1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-ninth
Congress; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and to the five
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1847, to May 7,
1858, when he resigned to become Senator; chairman, Committee on
Public Expenditures (Thirtieth Congress), Committee on Foreign
Affairs (Thirty-fifth Congress); appointed as a Democrat to the
United States Senate on May 6, 1858, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Asa Biggs; reelected in 1861 and served from May
7, 1858, to March 11, 1861, when he withdrew; expelled from the
Senate on July 11, 1861, for support of the rebellion; chairman,
Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-fifth Congress); during
the Civil War was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army;
explored and measured mountain peaks; died in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., on November 3, 1897; interment in Riverside Cemetery,
Asheville, N.C.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Jeffrey, Thomas.
‘Thunder From the Mountains: Thomas Lanier Clingman and the
End of Whig Supremacy in North Carolina.’ North Carolina
Historical Review 56 (October 1979): 366-95; Kruman, Marc.
‘Thomas L. Clingman and the Whig Party: A
Reconsideration.’ North Carolina Historical Review 64
(January 1987): 1-18.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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