Thomas Bragg

U. S. Senate, North Carolina, 1859-1861
Confederate Attorney General, 1861-1863

Born: November 10, 1810, Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina.

• Attended the Warrenton Academy.
  
• Captain Partridge's Military Academy, Middletown, Connecticut, graduate.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1833, and commenced practice in Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina.
  
• Member of the North Carolina State House of Commons, 1842 and 1843.
  
• Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Pierce and King, 1852.
  
• Prosecuting Attorney for Northampton County, North Carolina.
  
• Delegate from North Carolina to the Democratic National Conventions, 1844, 1848, and 1852.
  
• Governor of North Carolina, 1855-1859.
  
• Elected from North Carolina as a Democrat to the U. S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1859 - March 6, 1861, when he withdrew.
  
• Appointed Attorney General of the Confederate States, November 21, 1861, serving two years.
  
• Resumed the practice of law.

Died: January 21, 1872, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)