Congressman from North Carolina, serving from 1795 to 1798 when he died in office.
He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1787 and from 1791 to 1794.
In 1794, Bryan, a Republican, was elected to the 4th United States Congress and re-elected to the 5th U.S. Congress; he died in office on June 4, 1798 in Philadelphia, where he is buried.
Nathan served as a delegate from Craven County in the 1788 Hillsborough Convention that met to debate the United States Constitution.
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