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Willie P. Mangum

Willie P. Mangum (1792–1861) was born at Red Mountain in Orange (now Durham) County, was schooled partly in Hillsborough and represented Orange County in the House of Commons in 1818. A Whig, he served in Congress and eighteen years in the U.S. Senate, and retired to his Walnut Hall home in 1856.

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Willie P. Mangum, 1844
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Life and Orange County connections

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StorylineThe county court tries enslaved defendants, 1793–18281793–1828 · 12 events · Enslaved men accused of crimes in Orange County were tried at Hillsborough, first before a called court of justices and freeholders and later before juries in the county and Superior courts. Between 1793 and 1828 some were discharged when no one proved the charge and juries acquitted others of murder, while the court sentenced Bob to whipping, mutilation and branding, Joshua and Jim to hang, and Sam to branding under the benefit of clergy. In 1818 the court bound over Samuel Strudwick for the death of a woman he enslaved and had whipped. StorylineOrange County and the 1835 constitutional convention, 1822–18351822–1835 · 11 events · Reforming the state constitution threatened Hillsborough's borough seat, the town's own member in the House of Commons, yet Orange pressed for reform. Toasts at Hillsborough in 1822 and 1823 said the constitution needed mending, and in 1823 a county meeting named four delegates, Thomas Ruffin among them, to a reform meeting at Raleigh; voters elected all four. In April 1835 Orange voted 1,648 to 111 for a convention, and Hillsborough itself voted 228 to 23 in favor. Candidates were pressed on the 32nd article, the religious test for office. At Raleigh, James S. Smith moved to abolish borough seats entirely and lost 61 to 67, but Hillsborough lost its member. Orange voters approved the amendments that November. StorylineJacksonians and Whigs in Orange County, 1824–18391824–1839 · 12 events · Orange County voted for Andrew Jackson in 1824 and by a wide margin in 1828, but by the late 1830s Whigs and Van Buren men were contesting its seats. Willie P. Mangum, chosen senator in 1830 as a Jacksonian, broke with Jackson over the removal of the bank deposits, and an Orange meeting approved his course in 1834. In 1836, after many county leaders broke with Jackson, supporters of Hugh L. White and of Martin Van Buren held rival meetings at the Hillsborough court house, and Orange went for Van Buren. Van Buren men took three Orange seats from the Whigs in 1838, and in 1839 Orange favored Dr. William Montgomery for Congress over the Whig George W. Haywood. StorylineInternal improvements and the 1833 Hillsborough railroad convention, 1828–18371828–1837 · 16 events · From 1828 Orange County leaders pressed for river navigation and, above all, a central railroad through the state. That year James Mebane brought a flour boat down the Haw from Murphey's Mills, and a meeting with Joseph Caldwell giving the address urged a central railroad. The 1833 convention at Hillsborough chose Thomas Ruffin president, called for a Roanoke and Yadkin Rail Road and adopted Willie P. Mangum's report that the state should pay two-fifths of any work for which private citizens secured three-fifths. By August 1834 every Orange candidate for the Assembly had declared for the central railroad, and in 1837 Cadwallader Jones of Hillsborough was named to the Board of Internal Improvement. StorylineThe Log Cabin campaign in Orange County, 1840–18411840–1841 · 11 events · In 1840 Orange County's Whigs and Democratic Republicans contested both the presidential race and the county's seats in the legislature. In August Orange elected Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham and two other Whigs, with the Democratic Republican Cadwallader Jones Jr. taking the fourth seat, and the Recorder declared Orange a Whig county. In September Mangum and Democratic Senator Bedford Brown debated for two days at Hillsborough's Masonic Hall, and Chapel Hill held a Whig log cabin festival, though the University faculty asked the candidates not to speak there. In November the county gave Harrison a majority of 191 over Van Buren, and William A. Graham went on to the U.S. Senate.

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  1. Willie P. Mangum is born in the part of Orange County that is now Durham County Mangum, who went on to four elections to the U.S. Senate and a term as its president pro tempore, was born in eastern Orange County. Place: Eastern Orange County (now Durham County)Search the index · M. C. S. Noble (University of North Carolina Bureau of Extension), The Teaching of County Geography (1915), scan p. 38
  2. Willie P. Mangum represents Orange County in the House of Commons In 1818, a year after his admission to the bar, Willie P. Mangum was elected to the House of Commons for Orange County, where he promoted constitutional reform. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · NC DNCR: Willie P. Mangum (G-28), highway marker essay
  3. Willie P. Mangum begins his service in the U.S. House of Representatives Mangum, a former superior court judge, took a seat in Congress for the district in 1823 and served two terms before resigning in 1826. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 92
  4. An Orange County meeting declares the state constitution defective and names four delegates for the reform convention Delegates from the county's militia captains' districts met at the Hillsborough court house, resolved that the state constitution was defective and ought to be amended, and endorsed the Raleigh convention movement. They recommended Thomas Ruffin, Willie P. Mangum, James S. Smith and Michael Holt as Orange's delegates to the November meeting at Raleigh and asked the sheriff to open a poll for delegates at the next election. People: Thomas Ruffin, Willie P. Mangum, James Strudwick Smith, Duncan Cameron Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Michael HoltSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 11, 1823, p. 3
  5. Orange County voters elect Ruffin, Holt, Mangum and Smith delegates to the reform convention At the August election Orange County voters chose Thomas Ruffin, Michael Holt, Willie P. Mangum and James S. Smith as the county's delegates to the November convention meeting at Raleigh on amending the state constitution. The sheriff also took a separate vote for and against a convention. People: Thomas Ruffin, Willie P. Mangum, James Strudwick Smith Place: Orange County · Also named: Michael HoltSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 10, 1823, p. 3
  6. Orange County votes for Andrew Jackson in the presidential election In the vote for presidential electors on November 11, 1824, Orange gave the Jackson ticket 638 votes to 591 for the William H. Crawford ticket, even though its congressman Willie P. Mangum backed Crawford. The county voted for Jackson again in 1828 (1,036 to 440) and 1832 (759 to 170 for Clay). People: Willie P. Mangum Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 85 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, November 17, 1824, p. 3
  7. Orange County voters return Willie P. Mangum to Congress and send William Montgomery to the state Senate In the county election Willie P. Mangum carried Orange over Josiah Crudup for Congress, 1,353 to 716, and was re-elected for the district. Dr. William Montgomery won the Senate seat over Michael Holt, William McCauley led the poll for the House of Commons with 1,059 votes, and John Scott was returned for the borough of Hillsborough without opposition. People: Willie P. Mangum, William Montgomery Place: Orange County · Also named: William McCauley, John Scott, Josiah Crudup, Michael HoltSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 17, 1825, p. 3
  8. Orange Superior Court tries Jim, Sherod and Harry, three enslaved men The 1828 term convicted Jim, held by Willie P. Mangum, of manslaughter in the death of another enslaved man and ordered 39 lashes. Sherod got 15 lashes for larceny, and Harry was sentenced to death for burglary but won a new trial on appeal. People: Willie P. Mangum Place: HillsboroughLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 100-101
  9. The legislature elects Willie P. Mangum to the United States Senate Mangum, then a Jacksonian Democrat, was chosen senator in 1830. He broke with Jackson over the bank deposits and resigned when a Democratic legislature instructed him to vote to expunge the censure of Jackson. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 92
  10. Trustees meet in emergency session over the university's debts With debts of about $37,500 and only some 82 paying students, a special meeting of trustees at Chapel Hill on June 21, 1830 called the whole board to Raleigh on July 19. There a committee under James Iredell reported on the finances, and the board adopted a memorial drawn by Thomas Ruffin asking the General Assembly for relief. People: Joseph Caldwell, Willie P. Mangum, Thomas Ruffin, William Gaston Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: James IredellSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 326
  11. An Orange County meeting at the court house condemns nullification A county meeting that filled the Hillsborough court room, by one estimate three to four hundred people, adopted with one dissenting voice a resolution against nullification and for the Union. A second resolution calling the tariff unjust set off a debate among Patrick H. Winston, Willie P. Mangum, Dr. James S. Smith and Congressman Daniel L. Barringer that ended in a disputed count. People: Patrick Henry Winston, Willie P. Mangum, James Strudwick Smith Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Daniel L. BarringerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 26, 1832, p. 3
  12. Willie P. Mangum declines a public dinner offered by his Orange County supporters Senator Willie P. Mangum declined a public dinner offered by a committee of Walker Anderson, Samuel Child, W. Montgomery, Allen C. Jones, V. M. Murphey and John Scott on behalf of a meeting that had approved his course in the Senate. He wrote that Orange had never so honored its public men and that such dinners belonged to great occasions. People: Walker Anderson, Samuel Child Place: Hillsborough · Also named: W. Montgomery, Allen C. Jones, V. M. Murphey, John ScottSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 26, 1832, p. 3
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  1. Orange County railroad meeting names fifteen delegates to the Hillsborough convention A meeting at the Hillsborough court house, with James Mebane in the chair and Dennis Heartt as secretary, heard Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Willie P. Mangum and Hugh Waddell and named fifteen Orange delegates to the internal improvement convention called for Hillsborough in September. The speakers rejected the Raleigh convention's view that state money should go only to works that begin and end inside the state. People: James Mebane, Dennis Heartt, Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Willie P. Mangum, Hugh Waddell Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 3, 1833, p. 2
  2. Hillsborough convention calls for a Roanoke and Yadkin Rail Road and two-fifths state aid On its last day the Hillsborough convention adopted James Mebane's committee report calling for a railroad from at or near Weldon, by or near Oxford, to the western part of the state, with county committees to circulate petitions and seek a charter for a Roanoke and Yadkin Rail Road Company. By 34 votes to 6 it also adopted Willie P. Mangum's report that the state should pay two-fifths of any public work for which private citizens secured three-fifths. People: James Mebane, Willie P. Mangum Place: Presbyterian church, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Harbinger (Chapel Hill), September 17, 1833, p. 1
  3. An Orange County meeting condemns Jackson's removal of the deposits Citizens of Orange met at the court house after May county court adjourned, chose Col. Cadwallader Jones chairman, and the next day adopted resolutions calling President Jackson's removal of the public deposits from the Bank of the United States unauthorized, declaring a national bank necessary, and approving the course of Senator Willie P. Mangum and Representative Daniel L. Barringer. People: Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, Willie P. Mangum Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Daniel L. BarringerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 4, 1834, p. 3
  4. A Red Mountain meeting nominates Thomas Ruffin and Frederick Nash for the constitutional convention Citizens of eastern Orange met at Red Mountain and nominated Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin and Judge Frederick Nash as the county's delegates to the constitutional convention, after Senator Willie P. Mangum, also nominated, asked to be excused because men deep in party politics should not revise the constitution. People: Willie P. Mangum, Thomas Ruffin, Frederick Nash, Harrison Parker Place: Red Mountain, eastern Orange County (now Durham County)Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 1, 1835, p. 3
  5. An Orange County meeting nominates Willie P. Mangum for Congress Citizens of Orange County meeting at the house of a Holt across the river blamed the money crisis on Jackson's interference with the currency, called for a new Bank of the United States and nominated Willie P. Mangum for Congress against William Montgomery. Mangum declined the nomination before the month was out. People: Willie P. Mangum, William Montgomery Place: Holt house, western Orange County · Also named: Isaac HoltSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 23, 1837, p. 3
  6. Orange Whigs meeting at the Cane Creek Cotton Factory back William A. Graham for Congress Citizens of Orange met at the Cane Creek Cotton Factory with Richard Freeman in the chair and resolved to support William A. Graham of Hillsborough for Congress, after Willie P. Mangum, whom some of them had named in June, declined. They named a committee to work with Graham's supporters elsewhere in the Orange, Wake and Person district. People: William A. Graham, Willie P. Mangum Place: Cane Creek Cotton Factory, southern Orange County · Also named: Richard FreemanSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 14, 1837, p. 3
  7. The Van Buren party takes three Orange seats from the Whigs In the August election Orange voters sent Joseph Allison to the state Senate over Hugh Waddell and elected Van Buren men to the Commons, a loss of three seats for the Whigs, while Willie P. Mangum missed a Commons seat after some of his votes at Chapel Hill were thrown out because the voters had not lived twelve months in the county. People: Hugh Waddell, Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Joseph Allison, John Stockard Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 23, 1838, p. 3
  8. Whig district convention at Red Mountain nominates Dr. James S. Smith as Harrison elector Whig delegates from Orange, Person and Granville met at Red Mountain and nominated Dr. James S. Smith of Hillsborough, who had served in Congress with Harrison and Tyler, as the district's elector for Harrison and Tyler, and asked him to canvass the whole district. Harrison Parker and Willie P. Mangum represented Orange; Dr. James L. Wortham of Granville chaired. People: James Strudwick Smith, Willie P. Mangum, Harrison Parker Place: Red Mountain, Orange County (later Rougemont, now Durham County) · Also named: James L. WorthamSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 14, 1840, p. 3
  9. Orange Whig convention nominates Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham for the legislature Delegates from every captain's district met at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough and nominated Willie P. Mangum for the state Senate and William A. Graham, Nathaniel I. King, Col. James Graham and Dr. Michael W. Holt for the House of Commons. The nominating committee also named Sheriff James C. Turrentine, but withdrew him after Hugh Waddell argued that ministerial officers should not depend on party politics. People: Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, James Strudwick Smith, James C. Turrentine Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Nathaniel I. King, James Graham, Michael W. HoltSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 28, 1840, p. 3
  10. Orange voters elect Willie P. Mangum to the state Senate and a mostly Whig delegation to the Commons Orange County elected Whig Willie P. Mangum to the state Senate and Whigs William A. Graham, Nathaniel I. King and Dr. Michael W. Holt to the House of Commons; Democrat Cadwallader Jones Jr. took the fourth seat with votes from Whig friends. The county gave John M. Morehead a majority of about 500 over Romulus M. Saunders for governor, and the Recorder declared Orange a Whig county. People: Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Cadwallader Jones Place: Election precincts, Orange County · Also named: Nathaniel I. King, Michael W. Holt, John M. Morehead, Romulus M. SaundersSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 13, 1840, p. 3
  11. Willie P. Mangum and Bedford Brown debate for two days at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough A Whig meeting at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough turned into a two-day political debate when Senator Bedford Brown, a Democrat, asked to address the crowd. After Dr. James S. Smith opened, Brown and Willie P. Mangum spoke until dark on Tuesday and again through Wednesday, with Mangum closing a little before sundown. People: James Strudwick Smith Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Bedford BrownSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 17, 1840, p. 3
  12. Orange voters elect Hugh Waddell to the state Senate and Col. James Graham to the Commons At a special election to fill the seats left by Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham, Orange County elected Whig Hugh Waddell to the state Senate and Col. James Graham to the House of Commons by what the Recorder called handsome majorities. People: Hugh Waddell, William A. Graham, Willie P. Mangum Place: Election precincts, Orange County · Also named: James GrahamSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 10, 1840, p. 3
  13. Orange County Whigs meet at the Masonic Hall and nominate Henry Clay for president A Whig meeting at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough, chaired by Dr. James S. Smith and addressed by Senators Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham, nominated Henry Clay for president and Governor John M. Morehead for re-election. It refused to recognize President Tyler as a Whig and called for delegates from every captain's district to meet at Hillsborough at the May court to name the party's ticket for the General Assembly. People: James Strudwick Smith, Edmund Strudwick, Giles Mebane, Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Henry Kollock Nash, Harrison Parker Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: John M. MoreheadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 25, 1841, p. 3
  14. Willie P. Mangum builds Walnut Hall at Red Mountain Willie P. Mangum built Walnut Hall from 1842 to 1845 as an addition to his father's house of about 1800. His wife ran the 600-acre plantation, where Mangum enslaved 20 people in 1850. Place: Walnut Hall, Red Mountain, Orange County (Durham County since 1881)Search the index · Open Durham: Walnut Hall, Willie P. Mangum House
  15. Willie P. Mangum serves as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate Mangum, by then a leading Whig, presided over the Senate as president pro tempore for three years. He had turned down the Whig vice-presidential nomination in 1840. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 92
  16. Orange Whigs nominate Henry K. Nash for Congress A Whig meeting at the Masonic Hall, with Catlett Campbell presiding, nominated Henry K. Nash of Hillsborough for Congress in the seventh district, which the Democratic legislature had gerrymandered. A committee led by Willie P. Mangum drafted the resolutions, and Nash accepted in a speech. People: Willie P. Mangum, Edmund Strudwick, Walter A. Norwood, Henry Kollock Nash Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Catlett CampbellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 1, 1843, p. 3
  17. The University gives honorary doctorates of law to President Polk and Senator Mangum At the University's commencement the trustees conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on two alumni, President James K. Polk and Senator Willie P. Mangum. At the Alumni Association meeting the night before, Governor Swain spoke of the postponed reburial of President Caldwell and of Governor Thomas Burke's unmarked grave near Hillsborough. People: James K. Polk, Willie P. Mangum, David L. Swain Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 19, 1845, p. 3
  18. Whigs hold a Scott and Graham mass meeting and barbecue at Hillsborough During Superior Court week some 2,000 to 2,500 people marched to a grove on the Chapel Hill road south of Hillsborough for a free Whig barbecue and speeches. William A. Graham, home after resigning from the cabinet to run for vice president, thanked the people of Orange and Alamance, and Willie P. Mangum said he would retire from public life at the end of the next Congress. People: William A. Graham, Willie P. Mangum, Hugh Waddell Place: Grove on the Chapel Hill road, a quarter mile south of HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 22, 1852, p. 2
  19. Willie P. Mangum is made a justice of the peace on his return to Orange County According to the book, Mangum was made a justice of the peace on his return to Orange County in 1855, so that the county court could draw on his knowledge and experience. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 191
  20. Orange County's American party convention names its legislative ticket A crowded American party convention at the Hillsborough court house, with Willie P. Mangum in the chair, heard speeches by Jones Watson and Henry K. Nash. A committee chaired by Harrison Parker recommended Josiah Turner Jr. for the state Senate and William N. Patterson and Frederick N. Strudwick for the House of Commons, and the convention ratified them unanimously. People: Harrison Parker, Willie P. Mangum, Jones Watson, Henry Kollock Nash, Josiah Turner Jr., William N. Patterson, Frederick N. Strudwick, James C. Turrentine Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 4, 1856, p. 3 ("Orange County American Convention")
  21. Hillsborough receives the body of Lt. William P. Mangum, mortally wounded at Manassas The body of Lt. William Preston Mangum of the Flat River Guards, only son of former Senator Willie P. Mangum, arrived by train on August 1. Citizens met it at the depot and escorted it through town with the church and court house bells tolling and the town flag at half mast, and young men of the town went with it to his father's home for burial in the family graveyard. People: William Preston Mangum, Willie P. Mangum Place: Railroad depot and streets, HillsboroughHillsborough Recorder, August 7, 1861, p. 3
  22. Former Senator Willie P. Mangum dies at his home near Red Mountain Willie P. Mangum, who had represented Orange in the legislature, sat as a superior court judge and served North Carolina in both houses of Congress, including as president of the Senate, died at his home near Red Mountain on September 7 after several years of illness. Members of the bar attending the fall term of Orange Superior Court met with J. W. Norwood presiding and adopted resolutions in his memory. People: John Wall Norwood, Thomas Webb Place: His home near Red Mountain, Orange County (now Durham County) · Also mentions: Red MountainSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 11, 1861, p. 3

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  1. Mangum Dormitory opens, named for three members of the Mangum family The university opened Mangum Dormitory in 1922, naming it for Senator Willie Person Mangum, his nephew Willie Person Mangum Jr., and Professor Adolphus Williamson Mangum. People: Adolphus Williamson Mangum, Willie P. Mangum Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Willie Person Mangum Jr.Search the index · Carolina Story: Mangum Residence Hall

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The Papers Of Willie Person Mangum

Mangum, Willie Person · 1950 · State Dept. of Archives and History

The papers of Willie Person Mangum, 1792 to 1861, a lawyer, judge and United States senator from the part of Orange County that later became Durham County. Five volumes of correspondence published by the State Department of Archives and History beginning in 1950, arranged by date from 1807 to 1894, with illustrations, portraits and folding maps. A source for antebellum North Carolina and national politics, the Whig Party and the Mangum family.

Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1951), Journal of American History (1951), The Journal of Southern History (1953), Journal of American History (1953), The Journal of Southern History (1954), The Journal of Southern History (1955), The Journal of Southern History (1957), Journal of American History (1957), The American Historical Review (1957).

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Willie Person Mangum papers,

Mangum, Willie Person,; Mangum, Arthur,; Mangum, Charity Alston Cain

Personal and political papers of Willie Person Mangum, the Whig senator from Orange County, together with papers of Arthur Mangum and Charity Alston Cain Mangum. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, John Chavis and Abraham Lincoln, and other topics include plantations at Hillsborough, the estate called Walnut Hill, state politics, agriculture and education.

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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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Willie Person Mangum (1792-1861) Papers

Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861 · 1705

Willie Person Mangum, the Orange County lawyer, judge and United States senator, is at the center of these papers, 1705 to 1916. They bring together selected items from the Mangum family papers at UNC's Southern Historical Collection, chiefly deeds and legal papers, and from his papers at the Library of Congress. Walnut Hill Plantation, the Whig Party and the Mexican War appear. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.69.

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Map of Orange County, N.C.

Tate, George W. · 1891 · George W. Tate

Facsimile, dated 1940, of George W. Tate's 1891 map of Orange County. It shows towns, roads, railroads such as the North Carolina Rail Road and the Chapel Hill line, residences, schools, churches, mills and mines, with portraits and pictures of buildings in the margins.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861.

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Winners of the Willie Person Mangum medal.

1979

Two photocopied leaves list the winners of the Willie Person Mangum medal from 1879 to 1979, with names and dates. The medal went to the member of the senior class who gave the best oration at an annual contest at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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Donees of the Mangum medal from the foundation in 1878-1926

1926

A typescript list, compiled by J. A. Warren, of the winners of the Willie Person Mangum medal from 1879 to 1926. The medal went each year to the member of the senior class whose oration was judged best at an annual contest at the University of North Carolina. It is a register of university awards. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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Map of Orange County, NC (Tate-reduced positive photostat)

Tate, George W. · 1891

George W. Tate's map of Orange County, drawn from actual surveys and published by Tate at Bingham School in 1891, here as a reduced positive photostat. It marks townships, churches including Black churches, schools, mills, post offices, mines and quarries, stores, landowners and historic sites, with names such as Cedar Grove Academy and Memorial Hall at Chapel Hill.

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  • Foundational · NC BIO MANGUM SHA The Papers of Willie Person Mangum Mangum, Willie Person · 1950

    The papers of Willie Person Mangum, 1792 to 1861, a lawyer, judge and United States senator from the part of Orange County that later became Durham County. Five volumes of correspondence published by the State Department of Archives and History beginning in 1950, arranged by date from 1807 to 1894, with illustrations, portraits and folding maps. A source for antebellum North Carolina and national politics, the Whig Party and the Mangum family.

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