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38135
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Purchased and passed down by various family members, the Asa Biggs house was sold by its final owners to the Martin County Historical Society. Its size and architectural style reflect Biggs’ growing family and experience with buildings in the New Orleans area. From efforts of citizens and groups, the house reflecting 1840s life is open for public tours. It contains artifacts related to Asa Biggs, Williamston, and Martin County, as well as the Francis M. Manning History and Research Room.
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38849
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Asa Biggs, a native of Williamston, NC, read law and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He served in the NC House of Commons and State Senate. He was elected to the US Senate in 1855, appointed as Judge of the US District Court for North Carolina in 1858 and was appointed a member of the North Carolina Secession Convention in 1861. Biggs served as Confederate Judge in North Carolina from 1861 to 1865. After the Civil War he began his law practice in Tarboro, NC and in 1869 he joined 108 other North Carolina lawyers making a formal protest against improper interference in political matters and judicial activism by the judges of the NC Supreme Court. The Chief Justice held them for contempt for publicly expressing their criticisms and stipulated any lawyer who signed the protest could practice in the Court until they apologized. Asa Biggs refused to recant and being in financial straits after the war, moved to Norfolk, VA, where in continued his law practice and went into the merchantile business with his brother Kedar Biggs. Interesting that his Norfolk law partner, William Nathan Harrell Smith, later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
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Record #:
18944
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The Biggs family has for three generations held positions of honor not only within the state but also in national affairs. Asa Biggs was a distinguished lawyer and jurist who was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1835. His son William was a gallant Confederate officer who was wounded several times. After the war he became a lawyer and later the distinguished editor of the Tarboro Southerner. His grandson James was a jurist and Solicitor General of the United States.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 10 Issue 36, Feb 1943, p4, 25, por
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Record #:
17711
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Asa Biggs was a distinguished lawyer, member of the state Senate and House of Commons, and US District Judge for North Carolina. He was also a man of principles and convictions, and when asked by the NC Supreme Court to retract an opinion, rather than surrender his convictions, he left the state and went to Norfolk, Virginia, where he lived the last nine years of his life.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 41, Mar 1940, p4, 18
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