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Pettigrew, Ebenezer

congressman, was born March 10, 1783, near Edenton, N. C. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1835 to 1837. He died July 8, 1848, in Magnolia, N. C.

PETTIGREW, RICHARD FRANKLIN, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born in July, 1848, in Ludlow, Vt. He went to Dakota in 1869 in the employ of a United States deputy surveyor; located in Sioux Falls, where he engaged in the surveying and real estate business. He opened a law office in 1872, and has been in the practice of his profession since. He was elected to the Dakota legislature as a member of the council in 1877 and re-elected in 1879. He was elected to the forty-seventh congress as delegate from Dakota territory; and was elected to the territorial council of 1884-85. He was elected United States senator in 1889, and took his seat Dec. 2; was re-elected in 1895.