Willie Person Mangum (10 May 1792 – 7 September 1861) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NC 8) from 4 March 1823 to 18 March 1826 (succeeding Josiah Crudup and preceding Daniel Laurens Barringer) and a US Senator (W) from 4 March 1831 to 26 November 1836 (succeeding James Iredell Jr. and preceding Robert Strange) and from 25 November 1840 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding Bedford Brown and preceding David Settle Reid).
Biography[]
Willie Person Mangum was born in Durham County, North Carolina in 1792, and he began a law practice before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1823 to 1826. He had an interlude as a superior court judge before serving in the US Senate from 1831 to 1836, and he opposed Andrew Jackson on the issues of the protective tariff, nullification, and the Bank of the United States. During the 1836 presidential election, Mangum ran for the Whig nomination, and he won 11 electoral votes, although he lost the election to Martin Van Buren. He went on to serve in the Senate from 1840 to 1853, during which he was an important ally of Henry Clay. He retired from the Senate in 1856 and joined the Know Nothings, but a stroke ended his career, and he died in 1861.