Draft:Richard Codgell Badger
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Richard Codgell Badger (August 8, 1839 - April 22 1882) was a lawyer, an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, clerk of the North Carolina Senate, and a judge in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a Unionist Whig[1] and then a Republican.[2]
U.S. Senator George Edmund Badger was his father and Delia Haywood Williams his mother.[2][3]
In August 1860 he gave a speech at North Carolina University titled “The Truth of History” - What is it?[4]
Badger represented North Carolina governor Holden during his impeachment.[5]
He married Betty Austin and had a daughter Mildred.[6]
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- ^ Olsen, Otto H.; McGrew, Ellen Z. (1983). "Prelude to Reconstruction: The Correspondence of State Senator Leander Sams Gash, 1866-1867: Part I: Introduction". The North Carolina Historical Review. 60 (1): 37–88. JSTOR 23534794.
- ^ a b https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13397362/wake-co-raleigh-nc-25-apr-1882/
- ^ Sheppard, Steve (2007). The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources. ISBN 9781584776901.
- ^ "North Carolina University Magazine". 1860.
- ^ Moore, John Wheeler (1880). "History of North Carolina: From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time".
- ^ Abbe, Cleveland; Nichols, Mary Josephine Genung (1916). "Abbe-Abbey Genealogy: In Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants".
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