John M. Faison, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn M. Faison
American politician
Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1862
Date of Death: 21-Apr-1915
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About John M. Faison
- John Miller Faison (born April 17, 1862 near Faison, Duplin County, N.C.) was a Representative from North Carolina.
- He attended Faison Male Academy, and was graduated from Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1883; studied medicine at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; completed a postgraduate medical course at New York Polyclinic in 1885, and commenced practice at Faison, N.C., the same year; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State and county Democratic executive committee 1898-1906; member of the North Carolina Jamestown Exposition Commission; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for reelection in 1914; died in Faison, N.C., April 21, 1915; interment in Faison Cemetery. Faison was one of five candidates for the Democratic nomination in 1910, including the incumbent, Charles R.
- Thomas.
- After 446 ballots in which no candidate received the necessary majority, Dr.
- Faison was nominated on the 447th ballot.
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