- Abraham Rencher
Abraham Rencher (1798 - 1883) was a Congressional Representative from
North Carolina ; born nearRaleigh, North Carolina ,August 12 ,1798 ; tutored at home and attended the common schools and Pittsboro Academy; graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1822; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Pittsboro, Chatham County, N.C.; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses, and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4 ,1829 -March 3 ,1839 ); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1838; elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4 ,1841 -March 3 ,1843 ); declined to be candidate for renomination in 1842 on account of ill health; Minister toPortugal 1843-1847; appointed Governor of New Mexico Territory by President Buchanan and served from 1857 to 1861; retired to his home in Pittsboro, N.C.; died inChapel Hill, North Carolina , on July 6, 1883; interment in St. Bartholomew’s Protestant Episcopal Churchyard, Pittsboro, N.C.ee also
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"This article draws extensively from the [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000162 entry in US Congressional Biography database] ."
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