Henry William Connor (1793–1866) was aCongressional Representative fromNorth Carolina; born nearAmelia Courthouse,Prince George County, Virginia, August 5, 1793; was graduated fromSouth Carolina College at Columbia in 1812; served asaide-de-camp to Brig. Gen.Joseph Graham with rank ofMajor in the expedition against theCreek Indians in 1814; settled inFalls Town, North Carolina; engaged in planting; elected as aDemocratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress; elected as aJackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; elected as aJacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-fourth Congresses, and elected as aDemocrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on thePost Office and Post Roads (Twenty-second through Twenty-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1840; member of theState senate 1848–1850; died atBeatties Ford, North Carolina, January 6, 1866; interment inRehobeth Methodist Church Cemetery, nearSherrills Ford, North Carolina
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