The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Augustus S. Merrimon

(September 15, 1830 — November 14, 1892) Merrimon was an American politician, judge, and lawyer. Augustus Summerfield Merrimon was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1830, where he received a limited education. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852. Merrimon served in the State House of Commons from 1860 to 1861, before enlisting in the Confederate Army at the start of the Civil War. He only served in the army for a year before he resigned to act as solicitor for the eighth judicial court of North Carolina. Merrimon was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate during the Forty-Third, Forty-Fourth, and Forty-Fifth Congresses from March 1873 to March 1879. After he served in Congress, he was appointed justice on the State Supreme Court and served in that capacity until his death in 1892. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000659]

Member of North Carolina Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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