Beaufort County NcArchives Biographies.....Cambreleng, Churchill Caldom 1786 - 1862
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CAMBRELENG, Churchill Caldom, (1786 - 1862) 

CAMBRELENG, Churchill Caldom, a Representative from New York; born in 
Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., October 24, 1786; attended school in New 
Bern, N.C.; moved to New York City in 1802, where he became a clerk and 
subsequently engaged in the mercantile business; elected as a Republican to 
the Seventeenth Congress; as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; 
as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-fourth Congresses; and 
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 
1839); chairman, Committee on Commerce (Twentieth through Twenty-second 
Congresses), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-third Congress), Committee 
on Ways and Means (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful 
candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; appointed 
United States Minister to Russia by President Van Buren and served from May 
20, 1840, to July 13, 1841; member of the State constitutional convention in 
1846; died at his residence near Huntington, Suffolk County, N.Y., April 30, 
1862; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 


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