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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Thomas Ruffin |
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Louisburg, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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September 09, 1820 |
| Died |
October 13, 1863
(43 years) |
| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | RUFFIN, Thomas, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Louisburg, Franklin County (formerly a part of Edgecombe County), N.C., September 9, 1820; attended the common schools; graduated from the University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1841; lawyer, private practice; circuit attorney of the seventh judicial district of the state of Missouri 1844-1848
U.S. Representative (D-NC) 1853-61
Delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress at Richmond, Va., in July 1861; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of the First North Carolina Cavalry, Confederate States of America; mortally wounded in action on October 13, 1863, in Auburn, Va.; interment in the private cemetery on the Ruffin homestead, near Louisburg, N.C.
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