Edward Stanly (10 January 1810-12 July 1872) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-NC 3) from 4 March 1837 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Ebenezer Pettigrew and preceding David Settle Reid) and from NC-8 from 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding Richard Spaight Donnell and preceding Thomas Lanier Clingman).
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Edward Stanly was born in New Bern, North Carolina in 1810, the son of John Stanly and the cousin of George Edmund Badger. He became a lawyer in Beaufort County in 1832, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1837 to 1843 and from 1849 to 1853 as a unionist Whig. He also served in the House of Commons from 1844 to 1846 and in 1848 and as Attorney General of North Carolina from 1847 to 1848. Stanly moved to San Francisco, California in 1853 and was the Republican Party's unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in 1857. Stanly became a Union Army general during the American Civil War and served as military governor of eastern North Carolina from May 1862 to March 1863, when he resigned due to his disagreement with the Emancipation Proclamation. Stanly returned to his law practice in California after the war, and he died in 1872.