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Willie Person Mangum (/ ˈ w aɪ l i ˈ p ɑːr s ə n /; May 10, 1792 – September 7, 1861) was an American politician and planter who served as U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1831 and 1836 and between 1840 and 1853.
Willie Person Mangum, lawyer, judge, congressman, and U.S. senator, was born at Red Mountain in a part of northeastern Orange County that became Durham County in 1881. The son of William Person and Catharine Davis Mangum, he received his earliest education at academies in Hillsborough, Fayetteville, and Raleigh.
Willie Mangum, born in 1792 in Durham County, served as a North Carolina senator for nearly 20 years. Mangum studied at the University of North Carolina in 1815, and was admitted to the state bar in 1817.
Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861) became a senator from North Carolina in 1831 as a Jacksonian Democrat but soon gravitated toward President Andrew Jackson's opponents in the Whig Party.
Willie Person Mangum, Jr., diplomat and foreign service officer, was born in Wake County, the son of Priestley Hinton and Rebecca Hilliard Sutherland Mangum. He was the brother of Priestley Hinton Mangum, Jr., and the nephew of his namesake, Willie Person Mangum.
Papers of Willie Person Mangum. Vol. II, 1833–1838. Edited by Henry Thomas Shanks. (Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1952. xxi + 573 pp. Illustrations and index. $1.00 wrapping and mailing fee.) | Journal of American History | Oxford Academic. Volume 40. Issue 2. September 1953.
Mangum was an astute political leader, an effective debater, and a powerful campaigner with personal charm and magnetism. A close friend of Daniel Webster's, Mangum helped persuade the Massachusetts senator to make his famous "Seventh of March" speech during the Compromise of 1850 debates.
