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Born in Conway, Massachusetts in 1796 , Boyden attended the common schools and then served in the War Of 1812 . He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York , in 1821 and moved to Stokes County, North Carolina in 1822 . After teaching school for several years in North Carolina, Boyden studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced. In 1838 and 1840 , he was elected to terms in the North Carolina House Of Commons . In 1842 , Boyden moved to Salisbury, North Carolina and continued to practice law. In 1844 he was elected to the North Carolina Senate , and in 1846 , voted to a single term in the 30th United States Congress ( March 4 , 1847 - March 3 , 1849 ) as a Whig . Declining to stand for re-election in 1848 , Boyden returned to the practice of law. After the American Civil War , he was a delegate to the 1865 North Carolina Constitutional Convention, and, upon the readmission to North Carolina to the union, he was elected as a Conservative to the 40th United States Congress and served from July 13 , 1868 to March 3 , 1869 . He unsuccessfully contested the election of Francis E. Shober to the 41st United States Congress , and afterwards resumed the practice of law until elected associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1872 . He served in that post until his death in Salisbury, on November 20 , 1873 ; he is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Salisbury. |
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