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Graham, William Alexander 1804-1875

Senator; born in Lincoln county, N. C., Sept. 5, 1804; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1824; admitted to the bar; began practice in Hillsboro, N. C.; United States Senator in 1840-43; governor of North Carolina in 1844-48; and Secretary of the Navy in 1850-52. He was a Senator in the Confederate Congress from 1864 until the close of the war. He died in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1875.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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