Edwin Robeson MacKethan

Edwin Robeson MacKethan (September 7, 1869 - December 16, 1951) was an American lawyer, a white supremacist, and a Democratic party politician in North Carolina, where he was a member of both chambers of the General Assembly. After serving in the Spanish–American War, he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives, elected mayor of Fayetteville, and elected to the North Carolina Senate.

Biography MacKethan was born September 7, 1869, to Edwin Turner MacKethan and Janie Wright MacKethan (née Robeson) in the family home Cool Spring Place in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The house belonged to his family for generations after his grandfather Alfred A. MacKethan purchased it in 1860.

Edwin was the eldest of five children with three brothers and one sister.

MacKethan married Lulie Williams Biggs in 1906, the granddaughter of Asa Biggs, they married in her home town Oxford, North Carolina. including a son Edwin Robeson MacKethan Jr. and grandson Edwin Robeson MacKethan III.

He was a white supremacist, and in March 1900 he was elected as the president of the White Supremacy Club in Fayetteville. He retired from the post by the end of the year as he was running for a seat in the House of Representatives.

MacKethan was elected to represent Cumberland County in the North Carolina House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic party in 1901. Due to his military service he was selected as the chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs. He was a state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and a member of the Sons of the Revolution.