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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaAbraham RENCHER
(1798-1883)
RENCHER, Abraham, a
Representative from North Carolina; born near Raleigh, Wake County,
N.C., August 12, 1798; tutored at home and attended the common
schools and Pittsboro (N.C.) Academy; was graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1822; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in
Pittsboro, Chatham County, N.C.; elected as a Jacksonian to the
Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, reelected as an
Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses,
and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4,
1829-March 3, 1839); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1838; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4,
1841-March 3, 1843); declined to be candidate for renomination in
1842 on account of ill health; Minister to Portugal 1843-1847;
appointed governor of New Mexico by President Buchanan and served
from 1857 to 1861; retired to his home in Pittsboro, N.C.; died in
Chapel Hill, N.C., on July 6, 1883; interment in St.
Bartholomew’s Protestant Episcopal Churchyard, Pittsboro,
N.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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