Francis Burton Craige
Francis Burton Craige was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina born near Salisbury, North Carolina, March 13, 1811 attended a private school in Salisbury, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1829 editor and proprietor of the Western Carolinian 18291831 studied law was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Salisbury one of the last borough representatives in the State house of representatives 18321834 elected as a Democrat to the Thirtythird and to the three succeeding Congresses chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds delegate to the State secession convention in 1861 and introduced the Ordinance of Secession in the form in which it was adopted delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States which met in Richmond, Virginia, in July 1861 died in Concord, North Carolina, while attending the courts of that county, December 30, 1875 interment in Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina.
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