James Owen (December 7, 1784,
Bladen County
Bladen County ()
, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the – September 4, 1865,
Wilmington) was an American politician from
North Carolina
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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
Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad
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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
U.S. Representative
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from
North Carolina's 5th congressional district
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from 1817 to 1819. He died in 1865 and was interred at
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington.
References
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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
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