- George Outlaw
George Outlaw (born 1731 [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rburlingame&id=I01376] - died
15 August 1825 ) was a U.S. Congressman fromNorth Carolina in 1825.Outlaw, born near
Windsor, North Carolina in Bertie County, was educated by private teachers and in the common schools. He engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits and was elected to theNorth Carolina House of Commons for a term in 1796 to 1797. He rose to theNorth Carolina Senate , serving in 1802 from 1806 to 1808 from 1810 to 1814, 1817, 1821, and 1822, where he was that body's speaker in 1812, 1813, and 1814.Following the resignation of Rep.
Hutchins Burton , Outlaw was sent to the 18th U.S. Congress in a special election; he served for less than two months in Congress, fromJanuary 19 ,1825 toMarch 3 ,1825 . Outlaw was defeated in his campaign for re-election byWillis Alston in a three-way race. Alston, who had served previously from 1799-1815, criticized Outlaw's vote forWilliam H. Crawford in the contingent presidential election of 1825. Outlaw's vote reflected the vote of the 2d Congressional District (which had voted Crawford 1,516 to Jackson 957), but the voters agreed with Alston and elected him over Outlaw by a 42-31% margin (with an Adams supporter winning 27%). [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=174757] Afterwards, he resumed agricultural and mercantile pursuits and died in Windsor in 1825, where he is buried in his family cemetery.Outlaw was the cousin of Rep.
David Outlaw .References
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