Shaw, Henry Marchmore

Life Span
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    Full name
    Henry Marchmore Shaw
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Free State
    Family
    John Allen Shaw (father), Betty Marchmore Shaw (mother)
    Education
    University of Pennsylvania
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Henry Marchmore Shaw (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

    Reference
    SHAW, Henry Marchmore, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Newport, R.I., November 20, 1819; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1838 and began practice in Indiantown, Camden County, N.C.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-fourth Congress; elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-sixth Congress; served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was killed near New Bern, N.C., November 1, 1864; interment in the cemetery at Shawboro, Currituck County, N.C.
    “Shaw, Henry Marchmore,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000308.
    How to Cite This Page: "Shaw, Henry Marchmore," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12506.