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Alfred M. Waddell

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

(September 16 ,1834 — March 17, 1912) Waddell was a businessman, politician, and lawyer. Alfred Moore Waddell was born in Hillsboro, North Carolina in 1834. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1853. After that, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855. Waddell was clerk of the court of equity from 1858 to 1861 and served as a delegate to the Constitutional Union National Convention in 1860. Waddell also worked in newspaper, editing the Wilmington Daily Herald from 1860 to 1861. During the Civil War, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army. Waddell was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1879. After serving in Congress, he continued to practice law and work in the literary business. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000002]

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