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Ransom, Mathew Whitaker

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Oct. 8, 1826, in Warren county, N. C. He was elected attorney-general of North Carolina in 1852; was a member of the legislature in 1858- 60; and was a peace commissioner from the state to the congress of southern states at Montgomery, Ala., in 1861. He entered the confederate army; was lieutenantcolonel, brigadier-general, and major-general, and surrendered at Appomattox. He was elected to the United States senate in 1872 for the term ending in 1877, and was re-elected in 1876, 1883, and 1889.