Thomas Hart Ruffin was a Congressional Representative

United States House of Representatives

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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

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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, 1841; lawyer, private practice; circuit attorney of the seventh judicial district of the state of Missouri

Missouri

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 1844-1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress at Richmond, Va., in July 1861; during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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 served in the Confederate Army as colonel

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 of the First North Carolina Cavalry

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, Confederate States of America

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; mortally wounded in action on October 13, 1863, in Auburn, Virginia; interment in the private cemetery on the Ruffin homestead, near Louisburg, N.C.

See also

• Thirty-third United States Congress
• Thirty-fourth United States Congress
• Thirty-fifth United States Congress
• Thirty-sixth United States Congress

External links

• U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory