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John Adams Gilmer. Library of Congress description: "Hon. J. A. Gilmer of N.C."
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.02106. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH82- 4926 A

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Date

between 1855 and 1865
Author
Creator/Artist
Name
Brady, Mathew
Date of birth/death ca. 1823 15 January or 16 January 1896
Location of birth/death Warren County, New York New York City
Work period 1844 - ca. 1887
Work location
New York City and Washington, D.C.
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English: John Adams Gilmer (1805 - 1868), was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Greensboro, November 4, 1805; attended the public schools and an academy in Greensboro, N.C.; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practice in Greensboro, N.C.; county solicitor; member of the State senate 1846-1856; defeated as the Whig candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1856; elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fifth Congress and reelected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-sixth Congress); member of the Second Confederate Congress in 1864; delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Greensboro, N.C., May 14, 1868; interment in Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

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