Joseph Hunter Bryan

U.S. Congressperson

1782 – 1839

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Who was Joseph Hunter Bryan?

Joseph Hunter Bryan was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was a brother of Henry Hunter Bryan.

Member of the State house of commons 1804, 1805, and 1807–1809; trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1809–1817, and was sent to Tennessee on behalf of the university to secure from the general assembly of Tennessee its claims to escheated lands; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee.

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Born
Apr 9, 1782
Martin County
Died
1839

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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