Thomas Hart Ruffin

Thomas Hart Ruffin (September 9, 1820 – October 17, 1863) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Louisburg, North Carolina, September 9, 1820; attended the common schools; graduated from the University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1841; lawyer, private practice; circuit attorney of the seventh judicial district of the state of Missouri 1844–1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1861); delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress at Richmond, Va., in July 1861; during the American Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America; mortally wounded in action on October 14, 1863, at Auburn, Virginia; died October 17, 1863 in Grace Church Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia; interment in the private cemetery on the Ruffin homestead, near Louisburg, N.C.

Thomas Hart Ruffin between 1855 and 1865

See also
  • Thirty-third United States Congress
  • Thirty-fourth United States Congress
  • Thirty-fifth United States Congress
  • Thirty-sixth United States Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Joseph Pearson Caldwell		 Representative of North Carolina's 2nd congressional district
1853–1861		 Succeeded by
David Heaton
after Civil War
Preceded by
none		 Representative to the Provisional Confederate Congress from North Carolina
1861		 Succeeded by
none
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