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Dobbin, James Cochrane, 1814-1857
Statesman; born in Fayetteville, N. C., in 1814; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1832; elected to Congress in 1845; and in 1848 to the State legislature, of which he became speaker in 1850.
In 1853 President Pierce appointed him Secretary of the Navy.
He died in Fayetteville, Aug. 4, 1857.