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Weldon Nathaniel Edwards was a native of Northampton County, North Carolina, the son of Benjamin Edwards.
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Weldon Nathaniel Edwards was a native of Northampton County, North Carolina, the son of Benjamin Edwards.
Atteneded the Warrenton Academy
After attending the Warrenton Academy, he read law and began practise at Warrenton, but his professional career was soon terminated, for he entered public life and developed an absorbing interest in agriculture.
He soon abandoned cotton planting and, centering his attention on grain, hay, fruit, tobacco, and the breeding of improved stock, amassed a large fortune.
His game chickens were his particular pride and delight.
Genuinely hospitable and fond of society, he kept his home constantly full of guests.
A protégé of Nathaniel Macon, he was in politics completely in sympathy with him.
He represented Warren County in the House of Commons in 1814 and 1815, and, also in 1815, succeeded Macon in the lower house of Congress, being sworn in with Daniel Webster and serving until 1827, when he declined a reelection.
In Congress he was, like Macon, an advocate of economy.
He voted against the tarifif of 1826 and the later protective measures, fought the Missouri Compromise, and consistently opposed internal improvements by the federal government, though he championed them by state action.
He favored censure of Jackson for the invasion of Florida in 1819, but he later belonged to the Jackson group which opposed the Adams administration.
From 1833 to 1846 and from 1850 to 1854 he was state senator, and was speaker during the latter period.
In 1857 Edwards was made a commissioner of the sinking fund and served until Congressional Reconstruction abolished the commission and destroyed the sinking fund.
He was a stanch believer in the right of secession and, while he shrank from its exercise, he felt that the election of Lincoln justified it.
He was a delegate to the secession convention and was chosen president by the secessionist group.
After the first adjournment of the convention in 1862, he occupied himself in retirement by writing his Memoir of Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina (1862).
Despite the destruction wrought by the Civil War, his last years were spent in comfortable circumstances.
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In 1835 he was a delegate to the constitutional convention, where he was active in the movement to remove Catholic disabilities, and offered an amendment providing for complete religious toleration.
Liberal as he was in this particular, he was politically a conservative and voted against the democratic changes in the constitution.
His action infuriated his party, but the proposition was hateful to him as depriving property of protection and as a sure sign that “the idea of the Republican system is fast becoming obsolete and that we are rapidly drifting into a pure democracy. ”
He seldom made a speech and held few committee assignments. He loved children and had them always about him.
In 1823 he had married Lucy Norfleet of Halifax County, who survived him.