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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
he respect and admiration of the representatives of the whole nation. As a forcible and elegant public speaker and a wise councilor he held a high position during his public career in the Democratic party. In the second administration of President Cleveland he served as minister to Mexico, succeeding ex-Governor Gray, of Indiana. Major-General Robert Ransom Major-General Robert Ransom was born at Bridle Creek, Warren county, N. C., February 12, 1828, the second son of Robert Ransom, his 1872, and continuously thereafter up to and including 1882. He declined renomination in 1884, but took an active part in the Democratic campaign of that year, and in the following spring was appointed assistant commissioner of patents by President Cleveland. He also attained prominence in the masonic order as grand-master for his State, in the Methodist church as delegate to general conferences and the ecumenical conference in London in 1881 , and as a lecturer and author. Major-General W