| 词条 | James Turner Morehead (North Carolina) |
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|name =James Turner Morehead |image =https://preservationgreensboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Portrait4-240x300.jpg |caption = |office1 =Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 4th congressional district |term_start1 =1851 |term_end1 =1853 |lieutenant1 = |predecessor1 =Augustine H. Shepperd |successor1 =Sion H. Rogers |office2 =Two terms as a state senator (1870-1874) |birth_date =1840 |birth_place =Pittsylvania County, Virginia |death_date =1840 |death_place =Rockingham Country, North Carolina |nationality = American |party =Republican |spouse =Mary Lily Connally Morehead |relations = |children =John Motley Morehead III, Mary Kerr Morehead Harris, Eliza Lindsay Morehead Nelson, Lilly Connolly Morehead Mebane, Emma Gray Morehead Parrish |residence =Rockingham County, North Carolina |alma_mater = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |occupation = Lawyer |profession = |religion = Episcopalian |signature = |website = |footnotes = }}{{About|the Representative from North Carolina|other uses|James Morehead (disambiguation)}} James Turner Morehead is the name shared by two separate individuals, uncle and nephew, who were members of a prominent nineteenth-century North Carolina family. The first James Turner Morehead (January 11, 1799 – May 5, 1875) was the younger brother of North Carolina Govorner John Motley Morehead and a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, January 11, 1799; attended the common schools; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greensboro, North Carolina; commissioner of Greensboro in 1832, 1834, and 1835; served as a member of the North Carolina Senate in 1835, 1836, 1838, 1840, and 1842; trustee of the University of North Carolina 1836-1868; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851 - March 4, 1853); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and operated an iron works; died in Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C., on May 5, 1875; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery. The second James Turner Morehead (1840-1908) was the son of Governor John Motley Morehead. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1861. Commissioned a lieutenant in the Confederate army, he was wounded at Bristoe Station, Virginia in 1863. Following the war, he served two terms as a state senator (1870-1874). He became a pioneering chemical manufacturer, who with his son, John Motley Morehead III founded one of the world's leading chemical companies -- Union Carbide. He was a serial entrepreneur, chemist, engineer, inventor and author of scientific works.[1] He had one son John Motley Morehead III chemist, industrialist, and noted philanthropist (0 children) and four daughters: Mary Kerr Morehead Harris (2 children: Trent Harris, William Nelson Harris), Eliza Lindsay Morehead Nelson (1 child: William Harris Nelson), Lilly Connolly Morehead Mebane (0 children), and Emma Gray Morehead Parrish (0 children). See also
References1. ^http://www.historync.org/laureate%20-%20Morehead.htm External links
| state=North Carolina | district=4 | before=Augustine H. Shepperd | years=1851–1853 | after=Sion H. Rogers }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Morehead, James Turner}} 8 : North Carolina state senators|Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina|1799 births|1875 deaths|North Carolina Whigs|Morehead family|Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives|19th-century American politicians |
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