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Rep. Edmund Deberry

Former Representative for North Carolina’s 3rd District

Deberry was the representative for North Carolina’s 3rd congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1849 to 1851.

He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 4th congressional district as a Whig from 1843 to 1845; the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1839 to 1843; the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1837 to 1839; the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1835 to 1837; the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1833 to 1835; and the representative for North Carolina’s 7th congressional district as an Anti Jacksonian from 1829 to 1831.

Legislators who enslaved Black people

Deberry was among more than 1,800 legislators who enslaved Black people. The Washington Post compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents. Deberry was one of them.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1829 to Mar 1851, Deberry missed 761 of 4,428 roll call votes, which is 17.2%. This is on par with the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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