Bartlett Yancey (February 19, 1785 - August 30, 1828) was a

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from North Carolina, United States, between 1813 and 1817. Born near Yanceyville, North Carolina, Yancey attended Hyco Academy in

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before enrolling at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1804 to 1806. After studying in Hillsborough, North Carolina under Archibald Debow Murphey, Yancey was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1807 and practiced law. Yancey was elected to the

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in 1812 and re-elected in 1814 to the 14th Congress, serving from March 4, 1813 to March 3, 1817. During both terms, he chaired the Committee on Claims. Refusing to run for Congress again in 1816, Yancey instead ran for the North Carolina Senate and served there for ten years, from 1817 to 1827; he served as Speaker of the North Carolina Senate for his entire tenure in the legislature. In 1825, Bartlett Yancey was offered the position of "Minister" to Peru. Today this position is called ambassador. While the offer formally was made by President John Quincy Adams, it was upon the recommendation of US Secretary of State Henry Clay, who served in that post 1825 to 1829. Yancey declined the offer. In 1808, Bartlett Yancey married his first cousin Ann Graves (1786-1855), and the couple had ten children. No son of Bartlett Yancey had a son. Thus, this branch of the Yancey surname died out. He died at his home ("Oakland") near Milton, North Carolina, in 1828, and is buried in th
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Named in his honor are: (1) the Town of Yanceyville (Caswell County, North Carolina); (2) Bartlett Yancey High School (in Yanceyville); and (3) Yancey County in Western North Carolina. "Yancy. -- At a meeting of the citizens of Caswell county, held at the Court House, on the 7th inst. it was resolved that the village in which the Court House is situated, should hereafter be called Yancy, after their late highly esteemed and lamented fellow citizen, Bartlett Yancy, Esq. -- ib" ''North-Carolina Free Press'' (Halifax, NC), 5 June 1832. The

Bartlett Yancey House Bartlett Yancey House is a historic home located in Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It consists of a two-story L-shaped Greek Revival block added to the front of the original Federal house in 1856. The original section was built aro ...

in Yanceyville was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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Caswell County Family Tree

Caswell County Web Log

Caswell County North Carolina GenWeb

Caswell County Photograph Collection

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yancey, Bartlett 1785 births 1828 deaths North Carolina state senators People from Yanceyville, North Carolina University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina 19th-century American politicians