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About William H. Murfree, US Congress
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/murfree-william-hardy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hardy_Murfree
William Hardy Murfree (1781–1827) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina born in Hertford County, North Carolina on October 2, 1781.
He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1801 where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar practiced in Edenton, North Carolina.
He became a member of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1805 and 1812 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses where he served from March 4, 1813 to March 3, 1817. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures in the Fourteenth Congress
In 1823, he moved from Murfreesboro, North Carolina, to his estate in Williamson County, Tennessee where he died on January 19, 1827. He was buried in Murfree Cemetery, northwest of Franklin, Tennessee.
Tn Archives: Subject was born on October 2, 1781 in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. He was the son of Col. Hardy Murfree and Sally Brickell Murfree. He married Elizabeth Maney of Hartford County, North Carolina. He was a United States Congressman from North Carolina from 1813 to 1817. He died in Franklin, Tennessee in 1836 at his home on the Murfree Branch of the Harpeth River.
William H. Murfree, US Congress's Timeline
1781 |
October 2, 1781
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1817 |
1817
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Williamson, Franklin, Tennessee
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1821 |
1821
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1826 |
July 13, 1826
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1827 |
January 19, 1827
Age 45
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