Nathan Bryan (North Carolina politician)
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Nathan Bryan (1748 – June 4, 1798) was a two-term U.S. congressman from North Carolina, serving from 1795 to 1798 when he died in office. He had previously been a Revolutionary War leader.<ref name="NCPedia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early life
Bryan was born in Craven County, North Carolina (present-day Jones County) in 1748.
Political career
He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1787 and from 1791 to 1794.
Congress
In 1794, Bryan, a Republican, was elected to the 4th United States Congress and re-elected to the 5th U.S. Congress; he died in office on June 4, 1798 in Philadelphia, where he is buried.
Nathan served as a delegate from Craven County in the 1788 Hillsborough Convention that met to debate the United States Constitution.<ref name="Minutes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See also
References
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- 1748 births
- 1798 deaths
- Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
- People from Jones County, North Carolina
- Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
- 18th-century United States representatives
- 18th-century members of the North Carolina General Assembly