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Joseph Hunter Bryan
Joseph Hunter
Bryan
was a
Congressional Representative
from
North Carolina
. He was a brother of
Henry Hunter Bryan
.
Member of the
State house of commons
1804
,
1805
, and 1807–1809;
trustee
of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
, 1809–1817, and was sent to
Tennessee
on behalf of the university to secure from the
general assembly of Tennessee
its claims to escheated lands;
elected
as a
Democratic-Republican
to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses
; interment in
Elmwood Cemetery
,
Memphis, Tennessee
.