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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaMACON, Nathaniel
(1757—1837)
Senate Years of Service:
1815-1828
Party:
Democratic Republican; Crawford Republican; Jacksonian
MACON, Nathaniel, (uncle of Willis Alston and Micajah Thomas Hawkins, and great-grandfatherof Charles Henry Martin), a Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born near Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., December 17, 1757; pursued classical studies and attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University); served in the Revolutionary War; elected to the State senate 1781, 1782, and 1784; moved to a plantation on the Roanoke River; elected in 1785 to the Continental Congress but declined to serve; elected to the Second and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1791, until December 13, 1815, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Seventh through Ninth Congresses); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Fifth Congress), Committee on Claims (Sixth Congress), Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirteenth Congress); elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate on December 5, 1815, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis Locke; reelected in 1819 and 1825 and served from December 13, 1815, until his resignation on November 14, 1828; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Nineteenth Congress; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Fifteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses), Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Seventeenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for vice president of the United States in 1825; president of the State constitutional convention in 1835; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1836; died at ‘Buck Spring,’ near Macon, Warren County, N.C., June 29, 1837; interment at ‘Buck Spring.’
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Dodd, William E. The Life of Nathaniel Macon
. Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards and Broughton, 1903; Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. “Nathaniel Macon and the Southern Protest against National Consolidation.” North Carolina Historical Review
32 (July 1955): 376-84.
Barry, Stephen John. “Nathaniel Macon: The Prophet of Pure Democratic Republicanism, 1758-1837.” Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York—Buffalo, 1996.
Battle, Kemp P., ed. Letters of Nathaniel Macon, John Steele and William Barry Grove, with Sketches and Notes
. Chapel Hill, NC: The University, 1902.
Benton, Thomas H. “Nathaniel Macon.” In Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians
, compiled by William J. Peele. pp. 81-110. Raleigh: North Carolina Publishing Society, 1898.
Cotten, Edward R. Life of the Hon. Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina; In Which There Is Displayed Striking Instances of Virtue, Enterprise, Courage, Generosity and Patriotism
. Baltimore: Lucas & Deaver, 1840.
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. “Nathaniel Macon and the Southern Protest against National Consolidation.” North Carolina Historical Review
32 (July 1955): 376-84.
Dodd, William E. The Life of Nathaniel Macon
. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1903.
___. “The Place of Nathaniel Macon in Southern History.”American Historical Review
7 (July 1902): 663-75.
Helms, James Marvin, Jr. “The Early Career of Nathaniel Macon: A Study in ‘Pure Republicanism’.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1962.
McPherson, Elizabeth Gregory, ed. “Letters from Nathaniel Macon to John Randolph of Roanoke.” North Carolina Historical Review
39 (Spring 1962): 195-211.
Poe, Clarence. “Nathaniel Macon, The Cincinnatus of America.” South Atlantic Quarterly
37 (January 1938): 12-21.
Price, William S., Jr. “Nathaniel Macon, Planter.” North Carolina Historical Review
78 (April 2001): 187-214.
Wilson, Edwin Mood. The Congressional Career of Nathaniel Macon
. Chapel Hill, NC: University Press, 1900.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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