Weldon Nathaniel Edwards

Weldon Nathaniel Edwards

Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (born January 25, 1788 in Gaston , Northampton County , North Carolina , †  December 18, 1873 in Warrenton , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1816 and 1827 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Weldon Edwards attended Warrenton Academy . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1810, he began to work in Warrenton in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1814 and 1815 .

After the resignation of Congressman Nathaniel Macon , Edwards was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due for the by-election for the sixth seat of North Carolina , where he took up his new mandate on February 7, 1816. After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1827 . In the mid-1820s, Edwards joined the movement led by later President Andrew Jackson . From 1823 to 1825 he was chairman of the Ministry of Finance's Expenditure Control Committee; from 1825 to 1827 he headed the committee for the control of public expenditure.

In 1826 Edwards declined to run again. He returned to North Carolina where he ran a plantation. Between 1833 and 1844 he was a member of the North Carolina Senate . In 1835 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the state constitution. In 1850 he was elected again to the State Senate, of which he became President. In 1861, Weldon Edwards chaired the assembly that approved the withdrawal of North Carolina from the Union. After that, he no longer appeared politically. He died on December 18, 1873 in Warrenton.

Web links

• Weldon Nathaniel Edwards in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Weldon Nathaniel Edwards in the database of Find a Grave (English)