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Cartwright, Peter

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Cartwright, Peter (1785-1872)

US religious leader. As a travelling Methodist preacher, he denounced drinking, gambling, and rival sects on the circuit in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana. A committed opponent of slavery, he was twice elected to the Illinois legislature.

He was born in Amherst County, Virginia. He moved with his family to frontier Logan County, Kentucky, in 1790, converting to Methodism at age 16. In 1846 he lost the election to the US House of Representatives to Abraham Lincoln. The Backwoods Preacher, his account of frontier religious life, appeared in 1869.



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