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English: Francis Burton Craige (1811 - 1875), was a
Congressional Representative from
North Carolina; born near
Salisbury, 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 1829-1831; 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 1832-1834; elected as a
Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-third Congress); 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, in July 1861; died in
Concord, while attending the courts of that county, December 30, 1875; interment in Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.
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