Nathan Bryan (politician)

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Nathan Bryan (born 1748 in what is now Jones County , Province of North Carolina , †  June 4, 1798 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . Between 1795 and 1798 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Nathan Bryan grew up during the British colonial era. He was politically active from around 1787. That year he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives. From 1791 to 1794 he was again a member of this parliamentary chamber. In the mid-1790s he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by the later US President Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1794 Bryan was elected in the tenth constituency of the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives, which was then still in Philadelphia, where he succeeded Joseph Winston on March 4, 1795 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death on June 4, 1798 .

Web links

  • Nathan Bryan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)