politician
Edmund Fanning.
British North American colonial administrator and military leader (1739–1818)
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About Edmund Fanning
Edmund Fanning was an American-born colonial administrator and military officer. Born in New York, he became a lawyer and politician in North Carolina in the 1760s. He first came to fame as the focus of hatred of the Regulators, and led anti-Regulator militia in the War of the Regulation. When the American Revolutionary War broke out, he was driven from his home in New York, and joined the British Army, recruiting other Loyalists. He served during campaigns in New England and the South. At the end of the war in 1783 he became a United Empire Loyalist, settling in Nova Scotia.
Everything about Edmund Fanning →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- April 24, 1739
- Died
- February 28, 1818