Weldon Edwards, Marker E-100 - North Carolina Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Weldon Nathaniel Edwards was born in Gaston, Northampton County, N.C. on January 25, 1788. He attended Warrenton Academy, studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Warrenton, N.C.

Edwards served as a member of the State House of Representatives in 1814 and 1815 the was elected as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel Macon.. He was reelected as a Republican to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses then elected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress. He served from February 7, 1816, to March 3, 1827.

Edwards declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1826 and returned to his plantation. He served as a member of the State Senate in 1833 and 1844 and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1835. He was again elected to the State Senate in 1850 and chosen its president

Edward is perhaps best known for being the President of the State Secession Convention in 1861 when North Carolina voted to join the Confederate States of America.

He died in Warren County, N.C. on December 18, 1873. Interment was at a private cemetery at his home, “Poplar Mount,” about twelve miles from Warrenton.

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