John Adams Gilmer

John Adams Gilmer

John Adams Gilmer (born November 4, 1805 in Greensboro , North Carolina , †  May 4, 1868 in Greensboro) was an American politician who represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

John Adams Gilmer attended public schools and a private school in his hometown of Greensboro. He then worked as a teacher before studying law , was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practicing as a lawyer in Greensboro. He later became a district attorney in Guilford County .

Politically active Gilmer from 1846 as a member of the Senate of North Carolina , of which he belonged until 1856. That year he was the dissolving Whigs candidate for governor of North Carolina; but he was subject to the democratic incumbent Thomas Bragg . He then went over to the American Party , for which he was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington ; in the successful re-election two years later, he ran for the opposition party . During his four-year term he was also chairman of the Election Committee ( Committee on Elections ).

After the outbreak of the civil war , in which Gilmer's brother Jeremy served as major general of the Confederate Army , he remained politically active and was a member of the House of Representatives of the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865 . In 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia ; there the attempt to found a new party in support of President Andrew Johnson's policies failed . Two years later, John Adams Gilmer died in Greensboro.

Web links

• John Adams Gilmer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Adams Gilmer in the database of Find a Grave (English)