Career
William Blackledge (died 19 October 1828) was a Democratic-Republican United States. Congressman from North Carolina between 1803 and 1809 and between 1811 and 1813. He served three consecutive terms, during which he was one of the House managers for the impeachment of John Pickering. He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1808, but served briefly in the state house in 1809 and returned to serve one more term in the 12th United States Congress from 1811 to 1813.
He ran for Congress unsuccessfully one final time before retiring from politics.
Blackledge died in Spring Hill, North Carolina in 1828. He was also the father of William Salter Blackledge, who served one term in the 17th United States Congress in the 1820s.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. William Blackledge at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Mary Ann (Ryza) Blackledge, Blackledges in America (2002), page 199.
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