Francis Burton Craige (March 13, 1811 – December 30, 1875) was a U.S. congressional representative from North Carolina. Growing up, he attended a classical private school in Salisbury, before going on to study law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1829. He was admitted to the bar in 1832 when he was just twenty-one, commencing practice in Salisbury. Whilst studying law, Craige was editor and proprietor of the Salisbury Western Carolinian (1829-1831), making it the chief advocate of Nullification in the state, suggesting full co-operation with South Carolina in an ongoing dispute with Andrew Jackson. Craige was one of the last borough representatives in the State House of Representatives from 1832 to 1834, and was elected as a Democrat to the 33rd through 36th U.S. Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1861). He held additional posts including Chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, (33rd Congress), and was a delegate to the state secession convention in 1861. Craige introduced the Ordinance of Secession in the form in which it was adopted and was a delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Conservative States of America, which met in Richmond, Virginia, in July 1862. He died in Concord, North Carolina on December 30, 1875, while attending the courts of that county. He is buried in the Old English Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina.