Nathaniel Boyden

Conservative Representative of North Carolina's 6th district

  • Representative

    North Carolina, district 6

    July 13, 1868 - March 3, 1869

2

Congresses Served

2

House Terms

August 16, 1796 (77 years old)

Birthday

November 20, 1873

Death

  • Served as a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina for two non-consecutive terms (1847-1849 and 1868-1869)
  • Born in Massachusetts and moved to North Carolina after graduating from Union College in New York
  • Initially worked as a teacher before studying law and practicing in North Carolina
  • Elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1838 and 1840, and to the North Carolina Senate in 1844
  • Was a member of the Whig party during his first term in Congress
  • After the Civil War, participated in the 1865 North Carolina Constitutional Convention
  • Elected to Congress as a Conservative after the war and was the sole non-Republican to vote in favor of the 15th Amendment
  • Unsuccessfully contested an election to the 41st United States Congress
  • Elected associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1872 and served until his death in 1873
  • Married to Jane Caroline Henderson, daughter of a notable North Carolina politician