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.

Thomas Hart Ruffin between 1855 and 1865

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

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  1. ^ "Ruffin, Thomas | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by 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