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The favorite son of the North Carolina delegation at the 1848 Democratic Convention for Vice President. McKay died in Goldsboro, North Carolina, September 4, 1853.
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James McKay
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James Iver McKay was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, in 1793; pursued classical studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; appointed United States attorney for the district of North Carolina on March 6, 1817; served in the State senate 1815–1819, 1822, 1826, and 1830; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth through Thirtieth Congresses; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War, Ways and Means Committee.
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Political Party
Democratic party