Anson County, NC - John Culpeper, 1761-1837

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Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: 
Volume III
Culver, Erastus Dean

Culpeper, John, representative, was born in Anson County, N.C., in 
1761. He was probably a descendant of John Culpeper, surveyor-general 
of the Carolinas, who laid out the city of Charles Town in 1680. He was 
a Baptist preacher, a representative in the 10th congress, 1807-09; was 
unseated, Jan. 2, 1808, and re-elected, February 23, serving the 
balance of the session. He was a representative in the 13th, 14th, 
16th, 18th and 20th congresses, and was defeated for the 15th, 17th and 
19th congresses. He was agent of the Baptist state convention of North 
Carolina. He died in South Carolina at the residence of his son, the 
Rev. John Culpeper, in 1837.

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth 
Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
page 268

CULPEPPER, JOHN, clergyman, congressman, was born in Anson County, N.C. 
He represented that state in congress from 1807 to 1808, when his seat 
was vacated by resolution of the house. He was re-elected, and served 
from 1813 to 1817, from 1819 to 1821, and from 1823 to 1825. He was a 
Baptist preacher; and was elected to the general assembly, but his seat 
was vacated on constitutional grounds.

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
Biographies
page 1042

CULPEPPER, John, a Representative from North Carolina; born near 
Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., in 1761; attended the public schools; 
became a minister in the Baptist Church; presented credentials as a 
Federalist Member-elect to the Tenth Congress and served from March 4, 
1807, until January 2, 1808, when the seat was declared vacant as the 
result of a contest on account of alleged irregularities; subsequently 
reelected to fill the vacancy declared by the House of Representatives 
and served from February 23, 1808, to March 3, 1809; elected to the 
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); 
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth 
Congress; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 
1821); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth 
Congress; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 
1825); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth 
Congress; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 
1829); declined to be candidate for reelection in 1828 and retired from 
public life; died at the residence of his son in Darlington County, 
S.C., in January 1841; interment in the cemetery at Society Hill, S.C.