Bedford Brown (June 6, 1795 – December 6, 1870) was a Democratic

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from the State of

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between 1829 and 1840.

Biography

Bedford Brown was born on June 6, 1795, in what now is Locust Hill Township,

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. His parents were Jethro Brown and Lucy Williamson Brown. After attending the

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for one year, Brown was elected to the

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. On July 13, 1816, Brown married Mary Lumpkin Glenn. The couple had seven children: William Livingston, Bedford, Jr., Wilson Glenn, Isabella Virginia, Laura, and Rosalie. In 1828, upon the death of Bartlett Yancey, Jr., Brown was chosen in a special election to replace Yancey in the

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. Like Bartlett Yancey, Jr., before him, Brown was elected Speaker of the North Carolina Senate. In 1829, he was elected as a Jacksonian (the party that would become the Democratic Party) to succeed

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as a United States Senator from North Carolina. In the Senate, he chaired several committees, including the Agriculture Committee. Brown resigned his seat in 1840 due to a dispute with the state legislature. He was elected to the state Senate again in 1842, before spending some years out of the state. Leading up to the Civil War, Brown, a state senator again from 1858 to 1860, counseled in favor of North Carolina's remaining in the Union. However, after President Lincoln requested troops from North Carolina to serve in the Union Army, Brown, along with most of his colleagues, supported secession. In 1868 Brown, still a Democrat, was again elected to the North Carolina Senate. However, the Reconstruction Republicans controlled the North Carolina Legislature and refused to seat Brown. He was replaced by Republican

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, just outside

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. Rose Hill was added to the

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in 1973.

Descendants

Brown was the grandfather of architect Glenn Brown.BROWN, Glenn
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