Nathaniel Macon (17 December 1757 – 29 June 1837) was a member of the US House of Representatives from North Carolina's 2nd district from 4 March 1791 to 4 March 1793 (succeeding Hugh Williamson and preceding Matthew Locke), from the 5th district from 4 March 1793 to 4 March 1803 (succeeding William Barry Grove and preceding James Gillespie) and from the 6th district from 4 March 1803 to 13 December 1815 (succeeding William Henry Hill and preceding Weldon Nathaniel Edwards), as well as a US Senator from 5 December 1815 to 14 November 1828 (succeeding Francis Locke Jr. and preceding James Iredell Jr.). He was a Democratic-Republican.
Biography[]
Nathaniel Macon was born in Warrenton, North Carolina in 1757, and he attended Princeton University before serving briefly in the American Revolutionary War. He opposed the ratification of the US Constitution as well as Alexander Hamilton's economic policies, and he was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1791 to 1815 and a US Senator from 1815 to 1828. He opposed the recharter of the national bank, protective tariffs, and the internal improvements promoted by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, and he voted against the Missouri Compromise due to his steadfast support for slavery. After leaving public office, he served as a trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he died in 1837.