Ebenezer Pettigrew

Ebenezer Pettigrew (March 10, 1783 – July 8, 1848) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born near Plymouth, North Carolina, March 10, 1783. He studied under tutors at home and later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a charter member of the Debating Society, which became the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. He was a planter slaveholder, and later became a member of the State senate in 1809 and 1810. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837), afterwards resuming his agricultural pursuits. He died at Magnolia Plantation on Lake Scuppernong, July 8, 1848, and was interred in the family cemetery.

He was the father of Confederate General J. Johnston Pettigrew.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Thomas H. Hall
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 3rd congressional district

1835–1837
Succeeded by
Edward Stanly


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