Note: orn April 17, 1795, in Newbern, N. C.; died May 11, 1866, in Raleigh, N. C. He was graduated at Yale, 1813; studied and practiced law; received his law license by special act of Legislature when 19; was elected to the Legislature in 1816; in 1820 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court, which position he resigned in 1825; was appointed Secretary of the Navy in 1841; was elected a Senator in Congress in 1846, and was re-elected in 1849 for a term of six years, serving on the Committees on Military and Naval Affairs; was subsequently wholly devoted to his profession, visiting Washington occasionally to argue cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. On his retirement from the Senate that body passed a unanimous resolution of regret, the only time such a thing has ever been done. <b>Slavery in the Senate</b> Senator George Edmund Badger [ b. 1795] of North Carolina argued in the Senate for state's rights with fugitive slaves. You can view one of his speeches in The Congressional Globe, Senate, 31th Congress, 1st Session, Pages 382 through 391, The Slavery Question--Mr. Badger. View it on the web at <u>http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=024/llcg024.db&recNum=401</u> The following is a segment of the debate in the Senate over the future of slavery in Kansas: <b>Sen. George Badger (NC):</b> "<i>If some Southern gentleman wishes to take the old woman who nursed him in childhood and whom he called �Mammy� into on of these new territories for the betterment of the fortunes of his whole family�why, in the name of God, should anybody prevent it</i>?" <b>Sen. Benjamin Wade (OH)</b> in response to Badger: "<i>We have not in the least objection to the Senator�s migrating to Kansas and taking his old �Mammy� along with him. We only insist that he shall not be empowered to sell her after taking her there</i>". Note: <b>GEORGE EDMUND BADGER</b>, son of Thomas and Lydia (Cogdell) Badger, b
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