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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaEdmund DEBERRY
(1787-1859)
DEBERRY, Edmund, a
Representative from North Carolina; born in Lawrenceville (now
Mount Gilead), Montgomery County, N.C., August 14, 1787; attended
school at High Shoals; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also in
the operation of cotton mills and flour mills; member of the State
senate 1806-1811, 1813, 1814, 1820, 1821, and 1826-1828; served as
justice of the peace; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the
Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress;
elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and the
Twenty-fourth Congresses; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth
through the Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1845);
chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-fifth through
Twenty-eighth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in
1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4,
1849-March 3, 1851); was not a candidate for renomination in 1850;
resumed his former agricultural and business pursuits; died at his
home in Pee Dee Township, Montgomery County, N.C., December 12,
1859; interment in the family cemetery on his plantation near Mount
Gilead.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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