Thomas Hart Ruffin - Wikipedia

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Thomas Hart Ruffin (September 9, 1820 – October 17, 1863) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Louisburg, North Carolina, September 9, 1820; attended the common schools; graduated from the University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1841; lawyer, private practice; circuit attorney of the seventh judicial district of the state of Missouri 1844–1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1861); delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress at Richmond, Va., in July 1861; during the American Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America; mortally wounded in action on October 14, 1863, at Auburn, Virginia; and died as a prisoner of war on October 17, 1863, in Grace Church Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia; interment in the private cemetery on the Ruffin homestead, near Louisburg, N.C.

Ruffin owned a large plantation with 51 slaves.^[1]

• Thirty-third United States Congress
• Thirty-fourth United States Congress
• Thirty-fifth United States Congress
• Thirty-sixth United States Congress

• U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Joseph Pearson Caldwell	Representative of North Carolina's 2nd congressional district 1853–1861	Succeeded by David Heaton after Civil War
Preceded by none	Representative to the Provisional Confederate Congress from North Carolina 1861	Succeeded by none