Life span: 11/04/1805 to 05/14/1868TabsLife SummaryFull name: John Adams GilmerPlace of Birth: Greensboro, NCBurial Place: Greensboro, NCBirth Date Certainty: ExactDeath Date Certainty: ExactGender: MaleRace: WhiteSectional choice: SouthOrigins: Slave StateOccupation: PoliticianRelation to Slavery: SlaveholderChurch or Religious Denomination: PresbyterianPolitical Parties: WhigAmerican Party (Know Nothings or Nativists)Government: Confederate government (1861-65)US House of RepresentativesState legislatureLocal government Note Cards John Adams Gilmer (Congressional Biographical Directory) ReferenceGILMER, John Adams, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C., November 4, 1805; attended the public schools and an academy in Greensboro, N.C.; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practice in Greensboro, N.C.; county solicitor; member of the State senate 1846-1856; defeated as the Whig candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1856; elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fifth Congress and reelected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-sixth Congress); member of the Second Confederate Congress in 1864; delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Greensboro, N.C., May 14, 1868; interment in Presbyterian Church Cemetery. "Gilmer, John Adams," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000217. Events Date span begin Life span End Event 02/09/1860 02/09/1860 Maryland Legislature censures Congressman Henry Winter Davis for voting for Pennington Documents Subject Docs Date Title 06/17/1858 Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "A New Deposite [Deposit] Bill," June 17, 1858 09/13/1858 Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “1860,” September 13, 1858 02/17/1860 Greensboro (NC) Patriot, "Chairman of the Committee on Elections," February 17, 1860 03/07/1861 Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Hon. John A. Gilmer,” March 7, 1861 Addressee Docs Date Title 12/15/1860 Abraham Lincoln to John A. Gilmer, December 15, 1860 Images John Adams Gilmer John Adams Gilmer, detail Bibliography Chicago Style Entry Link Crofts, Daniel W. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. View Record Crofts, Daniel W. "A Reluctant Unionist: John A. Gilmer and Lincoln's Cabinet." Civil War History 24, no. 3 (1978): 225-249. View Record Crenshaw, Ollinger. "The Speakership Contest of 1859-1860: John Sherman's Election a Cause of Disruption?" Mississippi Valley Historical Review 29, no. 3 (December 1942): 323-338. View Record
John Adams Gilmer (Congressional Biographical Directory) ReferenceGILMER, John Adams, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C., November 4, 1805; attended the public schools and an academy in Greensboro, N.C.; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practice in Greensboro, N.C.; county solicitor; member of the State senate 1846-1856; defeated as the Whig candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1856; elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fifth Congress and reelected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-sixth Congress); member of the Second Confederate Congress in 1864; delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Greensboro, N.C., May 14, 1868; interment in Presbyterian Church Cemetery. "Gilmer, John Adams," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000217.
