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Life Summary
Full name
Richmond Mumford Pearson
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
1
Family
Richmond Pearson (father), Margaret McClung Williams (first wife), Mary McDowell Bynum (second wife)
Education
University of North Carolina
Occupation
Attorney or Judge
Educator
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Political Parties
Whig
Republican
Other
Other Political Party
Unionist (Conditional Unionist); North Carolina Opposition Party (late 1850s/1860)
Government
State supreme court
State judge
