Ebenezer Pettigrew
Ebenezer Pettigrew (March 10, 1783 – July 8, 1848) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born near Plymouth, North Carolina, March 10, 1783.[1] He studied under tutors at home and later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a charter member of the Debating Society, which became the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. He was a planter slaveholder, and later became a member of the State senate in 1809 and 1810. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837), afterwards resuming his agricultural pursuits. He was also a slave owner.[2][3] He died at Magnolia Plantation on Lake Scuppernong, July 8, 1848, and was interred in the family cemetery.
He was the father of Confederate General J. Johnston Pettigrew.
References
- "Bioguide Search". bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- Weil, Julie Zauzmer; Blanco, Adrian; Dominguez, Leo. "More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-27, retrieved 2022-01-29
Bibliography
- Twenty-fourth United States Congress
- Wall, Bennett H. “Ebenezer Pettigrew’s Efforts to Control the Marketing of his Crops.” Agricultural History 27 (October 1953): 123–32.
- U.S. Congress Biographical Directory
- Pettigrew Family Papers (#592), in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.