Edmund Deberry (August 14, 1787 – December 12, 1859) was a

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from

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, from 1829 to 1831, from 1833 to 1845 and from 1849 to 1851. Born in Lawrenceville, North Carolina in Montgomery County, Deberry attended schools at High Shoals, then engaged in agricultural pursuits and also in the operation of cotton and flour mills. He was a member of the

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1806–1811, 1813, 1814, 1820, 1821, and 1826–1828 and served as a

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. He was elected to the

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(March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831) as an

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, was defeated for reelection in 1830. He ran again as a Whig in 1832 and served in the 23rd through the 28th Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1845), becoming chairman of the Agriculture Committee. He did not run in 1844 but was elected to one final term in the 31st Congress (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851) after which he retired from politics. Deberry resumed his former agricultural and business pursuits and died at his home in Pee Dee Township, Montgomery County, North Carolina, in 1859. He is interred in the family cemetery on his plantation near Mount Gilead.

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