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Henry William Connor was a Congressional Representative

United States House of Representatives

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from North Carolina

North Carolina

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; born near Amelia Courthouse

Amelia Courthouse, Virginia

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, Prince George County, Virginia

Prince George County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 33,047 people, 10,159 households, and 8,096 families residing in the county. The population density was 124 people per square mile . There were 10,726 housing units at an average density of 40 per square mile...

, August 5, 1793; was graduated from South Carolina College

University of South Carolina

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at Columbia in 1812; served as aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Joseph Graham with rank of major

Major

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in the expedition against the Creek Indians in 1814; settled in Falls Town, North Carolina; engaged in planting; elected as a Democratic-Republican

Democratic-Republican Party (United States)

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to the Seventeenth Congress; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; elected as a Jacksonian

Jacksonian

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to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-fourth Congresses, and elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on the Post Office

United States Postal Service

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and Post Roads (Twenty-second through Twenty-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840; member of the State senate

North Carolina General Assembly

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1848-1850; died at Beatties Ford, North Carolina, January 6, 1866; interment in Rehobeth Methodist Church Cemetery

Rehoboth Methodist Church

Rehoboth Methodist Church is a historic church in Skinnersville, North Carolina.It was built in 1850 and added to the National Register in 1976....

, near Sherrills Ford, North Carolina

Sherrills Ford, North Carolina

Sherrills Ford is a census-designated place in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 941 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

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