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| Name | Benjamin H. Bunn |
| Address | Nash County
Rocky Mount, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
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October 19, 1844
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| Died | August 25, 1907
(62 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Jun 15, 2020 05:09pm |
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| Info | BUNN, Benjamin Hickman, a Representative from North Carolina; born on a farm in Nash County, near Rocky Mount, N.C., 10/19/1844
Attended the local schools
During the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army as a second lieutenant in Company A, Forty-seventh North Carolina Regiment; promoted successively and became captain of the Fourth Company of Sharpshooters, MacRae’s brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
After the Civil War Bunn studied law with his uncle William T. Dortch; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Rocky Mount, N.C.
Mayor of Rocky Mount in 1867
Candidate for alternate Presidential Elector 1868
Delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875 and to the Democratic National Convention in 1880
NC House 1883-1885
Presidential Elector 1884; cast an electoral vote for Cleveland & Hendricks
U.S. Representative (D-NC) 1889-1895; chairman, Committee on Claims (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses). Was not a candidate for renomination in 1894
Postmaster of Rocky Mount, N.C., 1895-1897
Resumed the practice of law; died in Nash County, near Rocky Mount, N.C., August 25, 1907; interment in Pineview Cemetery.
[Link] ; Biographical History of North Carolina 4:62-67 |
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