page_title: Whitfield family of the United States
section_title: Members
hierarchical_section_title: Whitfield family of the United States / Members
caption_attribution_description: English: Nathan Bryan Whitfield Gaineswood Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama
context_page_description: The Whitfield family was a prominent American political family of the Southern states. The Whitfields formed the American branch of the British Whitfield family - having descended from the British aristocracy, particularly the Earls of Kilmorey and having established colonial residency under Sir. Thomas Whitfield, whom headed East India Trading for the British Empire. In early days of Colonial America, the family emigrated to Virginia in the seventeenth century, particularly, Nansemond County, Virginia from Lancashire, England.
  The family produced many United States Congressmen, Senators and Governors, as well as businessmen and military generals active from the American Revolutionary War and past the American Civil War, with significance during the antebellum period. The family is most connected to the U.S. State of North Carolina, but had extended land ownership, slave trade, business activities and public service to Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Florida.
context_section_description: William Whitfield II (1715-1795) — Member of the North Carolina General Assembly from Dobbs County (1761 - 1762). In 1779 he was a member of Governor Richard Caswell's Council, and a Justice of Peace for Johnston County, North Carolina. Captain of the 6th Virginia Regiment during the American Revolutionary War.
  William Whitfield III (1743-1817) — Fought in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge during the American Revolutionary War. Appointed Justice of the peace for Dobbs County in 1778.
  Benjamin Bryan Whitfield (1754-1817) — Member of North Carolina General Assembly representing from Dobbs County, 1786-87. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War as a General.
  Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1799-1868) — Member of North Carolina General Assembly from Lenoir County, 1821; Member of North Carolina Senate from Lenoir County, 1822–23, 1825, 1827. General of the North Carolina militia during the war.
   
  James Bryan Whitfield (1809-1841) — Member of North Carolina Senate of the 17th District, 1840-41.
  Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1835-1914) — Member of North Carolina House of Representatives from Lenoir County, North Carolina (1858–59, 1891–92). Colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  James B. Whitfield (1860-1948) — 11th State Treasurer of Florida (1897-1903), 17th Attorney General of Florida (1903-1904), and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. Grandfather of Dr. Randolph Whitfield, Jr, brother-in-law of astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
caption: General Nathan Bryan Whitfield, portrait at Gaineswood.
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