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Nathaniel Macon

From the state marker

“Congressman, 1791-1815. Speaker of U.S. House, 1801-1807. Later U.S. Senator. His home site and grave, 4 miles NW.”

State historical marker: E-2: Nathaniel Macon 1758-1837

1758–1837 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The university graduates its class of 1825 and gives Nathaniel Macon an honorary LL.D. The University of North Carolina graduated a class of about forty at its commencement, among them William J. Bingham, Samuel L. Holt and others from Orange, and Marshall Polk of Tennessee. The trustees conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on Senator Nathaniel Macon and the degree of Master of Arts on Senator John H. Eaton of Tennessee and two other alumni. People: Nathaniel Macon Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: William J. Bingham, John H. EatonSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 22, 1825, p. 3

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By Nathaniel Macon

The congressional career of Nathaniel Macon

Wilson, Edwin Mood; Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837; Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861; Battle, Kemp P. (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919 · 1900 · University Press

Edwin Mood Wilson's study of Nathaniel Macon's years in Congress, printed by the University Press at Chapel Hill in 1900. Macon served North Carolina in the House and Senate from the 1790s into the 1820s, in an account of state and national politics between 1775 and 1865. Kemp P. Battle and Willie P. Mangum also figure in the account.

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About Nathaniel Macon

Governors' Papers: William Hawkins Correspondence, May 1813

Jones, William · 1813

Ninety-eight images of Governor William Hawkins's correspondence for May 1813. William Jones and Nathaniel Macon are among the names, and the letters range over elections, sheriffs, trials, clemency, boundaries and the militia. Hillsborough appears along with more than a dozen counties from Burke and Caswell to Perquimans and Wilkes.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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