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French ancestry Politicians in North Carolina

Mary Reamey Few (1885-1971) — also known as Mary Reamey Thomas; Mrs. W. P. Few — of Durham, Durham County, N.C. Born in Martinsville, Va., 1885. Republican. Member of Republican National Committee from North Carolina, 1944-54; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, 1948, 1952 (member, Resolutions Committee; speaker). Female. Methodist. French Huguenot and English ancestry. Member, American Association of University Women; Daughters of the American Revolution; Colonial Dames. Died in Durham, Durham County, N.C., January 12, 1971 (age about 85 years). Interment at Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, N.C.   Relatives: Daughter of Lyne Starling Thomas and Elizabeth Ann (Sheffield) Thomas; married, August 17, 1911, to William Preston Few (second great-grandnephew of William Few).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   William Lenoir (1751-1839) — Born in Brunswick County, Va., May 8, 1751. School teacher; surveyor; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of North Carolina state legislature, 1781-95; delegate to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1789. French Huguenot ancestry. Slaveowner. Died May 6, 1839 (age 87 years, 363 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Caldwell County, N.C.   Relatives: Son of Thomas Lenoir and Mourning (Crawley) Lenoir; father of William Ballard Lenoir.   Political families: Lenoir family of North Carolina; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Lenoir County, N.C. is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) — also known as J. Johnston Pettigrew — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Tyrrell County, N.C., July 4, 1828. Lawyer; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1856; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. French Huguenot ancestry. Mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, and died soon after at Bunker Hill, Berkeley County, W.Va., July 17, 1863 (age 35 years, 13 days). Original interment somewhere in Raleigh, N.C.; reinterment in 1865 at Pettigrew Family Cemetery, Tyrrell County, N.C.   Pettigrew Hall (built 1912), a building at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James J. Pettigrew (built 1942 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1960) was named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905) — also known as Albion W. Tourgee — of Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake County, N.C.; Denver, Colo.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Mayville, Chautauqua County, N.Y. Born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio, May 2, 1838. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper editor; delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868, 1875; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1868-75; candidate for U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1878; author; U.S. Consul in Bordeaux, 1897-1905, died in office 1905. French Huguenot and Swiss ancestry. Died, of acute uremia, due to an infected wound, in Bordeaux, France, May 21, 1905 (age 67 years, 19 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Mayville Cemetery, Mayville, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Louisa Emma (Winegar) Tourgee and Valentine Tourgee; married 1863 to Emma Doiska Kilbourne; uncle of Clyde Carlos Tourgee.   See also Wikipedia article

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