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  Cameron, Duncan
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AffiliationFederalist  
 
NameDuncan Cameron
Address Orange County
Hillsborough, North Carolina , United States
EmailNone
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Born 00, 1777
DiedJanuary 03, 1853 (76 years)
ContributorChronicler
Last ModifedChronicler
Jun 01, 2020 12:49pm
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InfoDuncan Cameron was a judge in central North Carolina whose judicial acumen was legendary. He was a brother of John A. Cameron.

Born in Mecklenberg Co., VA, 1777.

Settled in Hillsborough NC c. 1798.

Running as an avowed Federalist in 1808, he managed to hold an entrenched DR incumbent to only 65% of the vote.

Cameron was commonly written-in as a candidate in races not contested by the Federalists, including U.S. House races in 1804 and 1806.

Declined to be the Federalist nominee for U.S. Senate in 1816.

President of the Bank of North Carolina, 1819 and 1831-1840

Served on the Board for Internal Improvements; supporter of the North Carolina Railroad.

However, Cameron's legacy in Ohio is much different. A slave who escaped to Salem, Ohio, with the assistance of Quakers, told a story about Cameron which is not known in NC today. Apparently, when Cameron walked the streets of Raleigh or Hillsborough and saw a slave, he would hit the slave on the top of the head with the brass ball on his cane as a reminder of the status of blacks. This story has made it into the underground railroad annals in Ohio but has not made it back to NC.

Norman D. Brown, Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel 'Conqueror', p. 16; John H. Wheeler, Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina, p. 430; Raleigh Register, 1/5/1853


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  08/14/1823 NC Senate - Orange County Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  08/15/1822 NC Senate - Orange County Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  08/12/1819 NC Senate - Orange County Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  12/03/1817 NC Governor Lost 33.52% (-32.96%)
  04/30/1813 NC District 08 Lost 0.12% (-61.53%)
  08/13/1812 NC House - Orange County Won 34.78% (+6.39%)
  08/12/1808 NC District 08 Lost 34.66% (-30.67%)
  08/10/1804 NC District 08 Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
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