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| Affiliation | Whig |
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| Name | George E. Badger |
| Address | Wake County
Raleigh, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 17, 1795
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| Died | May 11, 1866
(71 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Jan 13, 2021 09:22pm |
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| Info | BADGER, George Edmund, a Senator from North Carolina; born in New Bern, N.C., April 17, 1795. Was related to Edward Stanly. Private teachers; attended preparatory school at New Bern; attended Yale College in 1810 and 1811; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in New Bern; member of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1816; elected judge of the superior court in 1820 and served until 1825, when he resigned; moved to Raleigh, N.C.
A supporter of Andrew Jackson from the 1820s, he separated with him in the mid-1830s, became a leader of the Whig party and helped carry the Whigs to victory in the 1840 Presidential election. Badger was a leader of a NC faction called the "Federal Whigs."
Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President William H. Harrison (1841). Badger's brief term as Secretary was marked by efforts to strengthen the Navy in the face of tension with Great Britain, the establishment of the Home Squadron and continued interest in steamships. Badger resigned in September 1841, during a general cabinet shakeup.
US Senate (W-NC) 1846-1855; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-first Congress)
Nominated by President Millard Fillmore as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1853, but was not confirmed by the Senate
His political activities continued into the 1860s, when he was a Unionist during the secession crisis but thereafter supported the Confederate war effort. Resumed the practice of law in Raleigh; member of the State convention in 1861; died in Raleigh, N.C., May 11, 1866; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
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Photo source: Samuel A. Ashe, "Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present" (1908), vol. 1, p. 34. |
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