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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaRomulus Mitchell SAUNDERS
(1791-1867)
SAUNDERS, Romulus
Mitchell, a Representative from North Carolina; born near
Milton, Caswell (then Orange) County, N.C., March 3, 1791; attended
the common schools and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 1809-1811; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Nashville,
Tenn., in 1812 and commenced practice in Milton, N.C.; member of
the state house of commons in 1815, 1817, and 1819, and served two
years as speaker; trustee of the University of North Carolina
1819-1864; moved to Raleigh, N.C., in 1823; elected as a Republican
to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Crawford Republican to
the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a Jacksonian to the
Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1827); declined to be a
candidate for reelection; attorney general of the state 1828-1831;
judge of the superior court 1835-1840; unsuccessful candidate for
governor of North Carolina in 1840; elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3,
1845); chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-eighth
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; unsuccessful
candidate for the United States Senate in 1842 and 1852; Minister
to Spain 1846-1849; again a member of the state house of commons
1850-1852; judge of the superior court of North Carolina 1852-1856;
member of the board of commissioners to revise the laws of North
Carolina; died in Raleigh, N.C., April 21, 1867; interment in Old
City Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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