Richard Clauselle Puryear

Richard Clauselle Puryear (born February 9, 1801 in Mecklenburg County , Virginia , † July 30, 1867 in Yadkin County , North Carolina ) was an American politician ( Whig and American Party ).

While he was still a child, his family moved to Surry County , North Carolina. There he pursued a classical degree and became a plantation owner near Huntsville . In addition, he pursued a military and political career. Puryear served as a colonel in the militia and was also Surry County's magistrate . He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives four times, in 1838, 1844, 1846, and again in 1852 . He also served a term in the North Carolina Senate . He then ran twice successfully, once in 1852 as a Whig and then again in 1854 as a candidate of the American Party , for a seat in the US Congress ( 33rd and 34th US Congress ). Then he made another attempt at the 35th US Congress , but failed.

Puryear served from March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1857 in the US House of Representatives . When his home state broke away from the Union in 1861 , he represented it as a delegate in the Provisional Confederate Congress in Richmond . After the war he was a delegate to the Peace Congress in Philadelphia . Then he went back to his agricultural work. He died on his Shallow Ford plantation in Yadkin County and was buried there in the family cemetery.

Web links

• Richard Clauselle Puryear in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)