BLACKLEDGE, William S. was born in Pitt County, North Carolina; was a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina; was elected to Congress from that State for the term fom 1821 to 1823. Died in Newbern, North Carolina, March 21, 1857, aged sixty-four.
Source: Biographical Annals of Citizens of the United States. Transcribed and submitted by: Anna Newell
BLACKLEDGE, William Salter, (son of William Blackledge), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Pitt County, N.C., in 1793; moved to Craven County, N.C., and settled in New Bern; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1813; member of the State house of commons in 1820; elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jesse Slocumb; reelected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and served from February 7, 1821, until March 3, 1823; died in New Bern, Craven County, N.C., March 21, 1857; interment in New Bern Cemetery.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)
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