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| Keywords: Francis Burton Craige - Brady-Handy.jpg Hon F B Craige of N C Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Brady-Handy Photograph Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 02092 CALL NUMBER LC-BH82- 4921 B <P P>P P between 1855 1865 Creator Mathew Brady PD LOC-image cwpbh 02092 Francis Burton Craige 1811 - 1875 was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Salisbury March 13 1811; attended a private school in Salisbury and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1829; editor and proprietor of the Western Carolinian 1829-1831; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Salisbury; one of the last borough representatives in the State house of representatives 1832-1834; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses March 4 1853-March 3 1861 ; chairman Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds Thirty-third Congress ; delegate to the State secession convention in 1861 and introduced the Ordinance of Secession in the form in which it was adopted; delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States which met in Richmond in July 1861; died in Concord while attending the courts of that county December 30 1875; interment in Old English Cemetery Salisbury N C PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Craige Francis Burton Alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Black and white photographic portraits of men Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Photographs by Mathew Brady Black and white photographs of North Carolina | ||||
