title: Ebenezer Pettigrew
text: Ebenezer Pettigrew (March 10, 1783 – July 8, 1848) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born near Plymouth, North Carolina, March 10, 1783. He studied under tutors at home and later attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a charter member of the Debating Society, which became the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. He was a planter slaveholder, and later became a member of the State senate in 1809 and 1810. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837), afterwards resuming his agricultural pursuits. He was also a slave owner. He died at Magnolia Plantation on Lake Scuppernong, July 8, 1848, and was interred in the family cemetery.
  
  He was the father of Confederate General J. Johnston Pettigrew.
  
  References
  
  Bibliography 
   Twenty-fourth United States Congress
   Wall, Bennett H. “Ebenezer Pettigrew’s Efforts to Control the Marketing of his Crops.” Agricultural History 27 (October 1953): 123–32.
   U.S. Congress Biographical Directory
   Pettigrew Family Papers (#592), in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  
  1783 births
  1848 deaths
  National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
  19th-century American politicians
  People from Plymouth, North Carolina
  American slave owners