North Carolina's At-large congressional district

North Carolina elected one of its members of the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

at-large

At-Large

At-large is a designation for representative members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body , rather than a subset of that membership...

state-wide. This only happened once, during the 48th United States Congress

48th United States Congress

The Forty-eighth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1883 to March 4, 1885, during the last two years...

. That member was Risden T. Bennett.

List of Representatives

Representative	Years	Party	Electoral history
Seat created March 4, 1883
Risden Tyler Bennett Risden Tyler Bennett Risden Tyler Bennett was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1883 and 1887.-Biography:...	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	Redistricted to the 6th district North Carolina's 6th congressional district North Carolina's 6th congressional district is located in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina. The 6th District comprises all of Moore and Randolph counties and portions of Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, and Rowan counties....
Seat inactive since March 3, 1885

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