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Thomas Hart Ruffin (September 9, 1820 – October 17, 1863) was a
U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory
1820 births 1863 deaths American people who died in prison custody People from Louisburg, North Carolina Confederate States Army officers People of North Carolina in the American Civil War Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States Politicians killed in the American Civil War Slave owners killed in the American Civil War Ruffin family American Civil War prisoners of war held by the United States Prisoners who died in United States military detention 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{NorthCarolina-politician-stub
Thomas Hart Ruffin (September 9, 1820 – October 17, 1863) was a Congressional Representative
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from North Carolina
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; born in Louisburg, North Carolina
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, September 9, 1820; attended the common schools; graduated from the University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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, 1841; lawyer, private practice; circuit attorney of the seventh judicial district of the state of Missouri
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1844–1848; elected as a Democrat
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to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1861); delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress
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at Richmond, Va., in July 1861; during the American Civil War
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served in the Confederate Army
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as colonel
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of the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment
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, Confederate States of America
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; mortally wounded on October 14, 1863, at Auburn, Virginia; and died as a prisoner of war on October 17, 1863, in Grace Church Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia; interment in the private cemetery on the Ruffin homestead, near Louisburg, N.C.
Ruffin owned a large plantation with 51 slaves.
See also
*Thirty-third United States Congress
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* Thirty-fourth United States Congress
* Thirty-fifth United States Congress
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* Thirty-sixth United States Congress
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References
External links
U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory
1820 births 1863 deaths American people who died in prison custody People from Louisburg, North Carolina Confederate States Army officers People of North Carolina in the American Civil War Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States Politicians killed in the American Civil War Slave owners killed in the American Civil War Ruffin family American Civil War prisoners of war held by the United States Prisoners who died in United States military detention 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{NorthCarolina-politician-stub