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2 days ago · Samuel Ashe then served until September 27, 1776, and Willie Jones until October 25, 1776, at which time a state government had been formed. State governors
- Pat McCrory
Patrick Lloyd McCrory (born October 17, 1956) is an American...
- Bev Perdue
Beverly Eaves Perdue (born Beverly Marlene Moore; January...
- Terry Sanford
James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was...
- Richard Caswell
Richard Caswell (August 3, 1729 – November 10, 1789) was an...
- Montfort Stokes
After the Revolutionary War, Stokes settled in Salisbury,...
- Henry Toole Clark
Henry T. Clark was born to a prominent Edgecombe County,...
- John Willis Ellis
John Willis Ellis (November 23, 1820 – July 7, 1861) was the...
- Warren Winslow
Warren Winslow (January 1, 1810 – August 16, 1862) was an...
- Jonathan Worth
Worth was an avid opponent of North Carolina's secession...
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2 days ago · Notes. 1 Ashe, Samuel A'Court, and Stephen B. Weeks and Charles L. Van Noppen, Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present, 8 Volumes, Greensboro (NC): Charles L. Van Noppen, 1905-1917, Vol. 6, pp. 302, 303 [AotW citation 997]
3 days ago · Their son, General John Ashe, was named one of six brigadier generals in 1776, while another son, Samuel, became governor, serving three one-year terms beginning in 1795. During World War II, the United States liberty ship, SS Samuel Ashe, was named in his honor. He died in Rocky Point, North Carolina, where there remains a well-marked grave on ...
1 day ago · Rutherford B. Hayes. Republican. via Electoral Commission. The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876. Incumbent Republican president Ulysses S. Grant declined to run for a third term, so the party chose Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio, as its nominee.
4 days ago · CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department confirmed officers found the body of missing 21-year-old Sam Haugh, and they’ve ruled his death a homicide. PAST COVERAGE’: Family ...
6 days ago · William Henry Washington (1834), Whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (1841–1843) John Edward Seeley (1835), US Representative from New York; Thomas Anthony Thacher (1835), Professor of Latin at Yale University (1842–1886): 47 Henry Champion Deming (1836), U.S. Representative from Connecticut: 112
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