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{{Infobox congressman
|name = Absalom Tatom
|state = [[North Carolina (state)|North Carolina]]
|district = [[North Carolina's 4th congressional district|4th]]
|term_start = December 7, 1795
|term_end = June 1, 1796
|predecessor = [[Alexander Mebane]]
|successor = [[William F. Strudwick]]
|birth_date = 1742
|birth_place = [[North Carolina]], U.S.
|death_date = December 20, 1802
|death_place = [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], U.S.
|restingplace = [[City Cemetery (Raleigh, North Carolina)|Old City Cemetery]]
|party = [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]]
}}


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Absalom Tatom
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 4th district
In office
December 7, 1795 – June 1, 1796
Preceded byAlexander Mebane
Succeeded byWilliam F. Strudwick
Personal details
Born1742
North Carolina, U.S.
DiedDecember 20, 1802
Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Resting placeOld City Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic-Republican

Absalom Tatom (1742 – December 20, 1802) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1795 to 1796. He was a slaveholder.[1]

Biography

Born in North Carolina in 1742, Tatom was a sergeant in the Greenville, North Carolina Militia in 1763; he served in North Carolina Militia during the American Revolutionary War, where he was commissioned first lieutenant on September 1, 1775, and promoted to the rank of captain June 29, 1776. He resigned from the Continental Army on September 19, 1776.

On August 15, 1778, Tatom enlisted as assistant quartermaster and keeper of the arsenal in the State service at Hillsborough, North Carolina; he was contractor for Hillsborough in 1778 and named major of detachment of the North Carolina Light Horse February 12, 1779.

In 1779, Tatom served as clerk of court in Randolph County; he was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons, but, because of his county clerk position, was disqualified from service in the legislature. In 1781, Tatom was district auditor for Hillsborough.

Tatom rose in state government; in 1782, he was one of three commissioners appointed by Congress to survey lands granted to Continental soldiers in the western territory (later Tennessee); that same year, he was a private secretary of Governor Thomas Burke and state tobacco agent. The Continental Congress named him surveyor of North Carolina in May 1785 and was named commissioner to sign State paper money in December 1785.

In 1788, Tatom was a delegate to the convention which considered ratification of the United States Constitution. In 1794, Tatom was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 4th United States Congress where he served from March 4, 1795, until his resignation on June 1, 1796. Tatom was later a member of the state House of Commons from 1797 to 1802; he died in Raleigh, North Carolina, in December 1802 and is buried in the Old City Cemetery.

References

  1. ^ Weil, Julie Zauzmer; Blanco, Adrian; Dominguez, Leo (January 20, 2022). "More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 4th congressional district
1795–1796 		Succeeded by
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