Edward Bishop Dudley (15 December 1789-30 October 1855) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NC 5) from 10 November 1829 to 3 March 1831 (succeeding Gabriel Holmes and preceding Romulus Mitchell Saunders) and the Whig Governor of North Carolina from 31 December 1836 to 1 January 1841 (succeeding Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. and preceding John Motley Morehead).
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Edward Bishop Dudley was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1789, and he served in the State House from 1811 to 1814 and from 1816 to 1817, in the State Senate from 1814 to 1816, in the US House of Representatives from 1829 to 1831, and as Governor from 1836 to 1841. Dudley was initially a Jacksonian who served as an Andrew Jackson presidential elector in 1828, but he opposed Martin Van Buren's influence on the nascent Democratic Party and eventually joined the Whigs. He supported statewide internal improvements and invested in the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad, and he retired from the railroad in 1847 and remained an ardent Whig until his death in Wilmington in 1855.