James Owen (December 7, 1784,

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– September 4, 1865, Wilmington) was an American politician from

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, a planter, major-general, businessman, and enslaver of Omar ibn Said. He was educated in private schools in Pittsburg. Subsequently, he was for many years president of the

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and a major-general of the militia. His brother John Owen was governor of North Carolina. Owen was a member of the North Carolina state legislature in 1808-1811 and a Democrat

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from

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from 1817 to 1819. He died in 1865 and was interred at Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington.

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* * Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1900, volume 4) 1784 births 1865 deaths Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina 19th-century American politicians American slave owners Burials at Oakdale Cemetery {{NorthCarolina-politician-stub