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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Hodge Rayburn |
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Haywood County, North Carolina , United States |
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January 01, 1759
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| Died | March 01, 1847
(88 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
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| Info | Hodge Rayburn (whose surname was also variously spelled Rabun or Raborn) was a prominent politician in western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century. He was born in Rowan County NC (today Caldwell County) in the year 1759. His father, William Rayburn, came from Virginia to North Carolina some years prior to the birth of Hodge and was considered to have been a descendant of the celebrated Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan, the noted Indian king during the early settlement of Virginia. Hodge Rayburn is said to have been a first cousin of Governer Rayburn of Georgia. Educational facilities were inferior at the time he was growing to manhood in his home in Rowan and Burke, but it is known that he was a man of great natural ability, a student of nature if not of books.
Rayburn entered politics while living in Burke County. He served several years as sheriff and also represented the county in the state house (1804) and the state senate (1812-1813).
Rayburn moved from Burke County to Haywood in 1815, only a few years after Haywood became a county. He was fifty six years old when he came to the county and purchased a home on Pigeon River including the present site of Clyde. It is also said that he owned a farm on Crabtree creek and lived there for a number of years in a house which he had built from hand-sawed lumber, a house beautiful for symmetry and workmanship for times like those, two stories high and the roof broken or hipped in style, the second story jutting out in front similar to many of the houses of ancient London. It was torn down in 1886. He represented Haywood County in the state senate 1816-1823.
In 1828, he moved from Haywood to Buncombe County to live and entered politics there also. In 1835, be became Senator from Buncombe County, and in 1838, for the counties of Buncombe, Haywood and Macon. In 1838, while in the Senate he sponsored a bill in collaboration with Montreville Patton and Phillip Brittain, representatives from Buncombe County, for the erection of the county of Henderson, in which he was successful. That, however, was his last public office. He retired from office and active life in 1839 and lived for eight years longer on his farm in Buncombe. He died March 1, 1847, of cancer, at the age of eighty eight. He lies buried in what is known as the "Old Cemetery" on the Henry place near the Hominy Baptist Church.
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