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Willie Person Mangum (/ ˈ w aɪ l i ˈ p ɑːr s ə n /; May 10, 1792 – September 7, 1861) was an American politician and planter who served as U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1831 and 1836 and between 1840 and 1853.
Willie Mangum, born in 1792 in Durham County, served as a North Carolina senator for nearly 20 years. Mangum studied at the University of North Carolina in 1815, and was admitted to the state bar in 1817. In 1823, Mangum was elected to the national House of Representatives, and in 1830 he became a North Carolina Senator.
Mangum, Willie Person. by William S. Powell, 1991. 10 May 1792–7 Sept. 1861. Willie Person Mangum, lawyer, judge, congressman, and U.S. senator, was born at Red Mountain in a part of northeastern Orange County that became Durham County in 1881.
Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861) became a senator from North Carolina in 1831 as a Jacksonian Democrat but soon gravitated toward President Andrew Jackson's opponents in the Whig Party.
7 May 1827–11 Feb. 1881. Willie Person Mangum, Jr., diplomat and foreign service officer, was born in Wake County, the son of Priestley Hinton and Rebecca Hilliard Sutherland Mangum. He was the brother of Priestley Hinton Mangum, Jr ., and the nephew of his namesake, Willie Person Mangum.
Jun 1, 2017 · Certainly in the North Carolina party battles of the Jacksonian era the Whigs first attempted to use instructions for partisan purposes, and Willie P. Mangum, instead of being one of the victims of a weapon forged by a ruthless majority, was one of the leaders who revived the doctrine of instructions for po- 1 Raleigh Register, December 23, 1834.
Jun 10, 2024 · Willie P. Mangum—each of whom served as the sole Whig presidential candidate on the ballot for a state or group of states. Read More
