Robert Rufus Bridgers | |
Birth Date: | 28 November 1819 |
Birth Place: | Edgecombe County, North Carolina |
Death Place: | Columbia, South Carolina |
Occupation: | Politician |
Education: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Office1: | Member of the Confederate House of Representatives |
Term Start1: | 1862 |
Term End1: | 1865 |
Office2: | Member of the North Carolina House of Commons |
Term2: | 1844, 1858–1861 |
Robert Rufus Bridgers (November 28, 1819 - December 10, 1888) was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.
Bridgers was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina on November 28, 1819.[1] He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1841.[2] He served in the state legislature in 1844, and again from 1858 to 1861.[1]
He married Margaret Elizabeth Johnston on December 12, 1849.[1]
He represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.[3] [4]
He died in Columbia, South Carolina on December 10, 1888.[2]