- Josiah Crudup
Josiah Crudup (
13 January 1791 -20 May 1872 ) was a U.S. Congressman fromNorth Carolina between 1821 and 1823.Born in
Wakelon, North Carolina in Wake County, Crudup attended a private school inLouisburg, North Carolina and thenColumbian College (nowGeorge Washington University ) inWashington, DC . He studiedtheology and was ordained as aBaptist minister, which was his profession his entire life.Also a farmer, Crudup was elected to the
North Carolina Senate from Wake County in 1820, but was forced to vacate his office because the state constitution at the time forbade "a minister of the Gospel, while exercising his ministerial functions, to hold a public office." [http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/manual/manual.html#p829]In 1821, he was elected to the
17th United States Congress and served for one term, fromMarch 4 ,1821 toMarch 3 ,1823 . Although he ran for re-election in 1822, he was defeated and returned to farming and the ministry. Crudup was a delegate from Granville County to the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional Convention, and died inKittrell, North Carolina in 1872; he is buried in his family cemetery near Kittrell.External links
* [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=88007 OurCampaigns.com]
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