Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
105 results
for Governors
Record #:
11860
Author(s):
Abstract:
Jim Holshouser was the first Republican governor elected in North Carolina in the 20th-century. In this We the People of North Carolina interview, he reflects on his years in office.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
11861
Author(s):
Abstract:
James Hunt, the incumbent governor, offers his observations about the decade of the 70s.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
11949
Author(s):
Abstract:
Beverly Eaves Purdue is North Carolina's seventy-third governor and the first woman to lead the state. After her first year in office, she looks back in this interview, to the past year and forward to what is next in the state's economy, energy, and rural needs.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12021
Abstract:
James B. Hunt, Jr. is the first Governor of North Carolina to be elected to consecutive four-year terms. In this We the People of North Carolina interview, he discusses his first term and what he hopes to accomplish during his second term.
Source:
Subject(s):
Record #:
12673
Author(s):
Abstract:
On the September day of 1862 when Zebulon Vance first took the office of governor, North Carolinians would have been hard pressed to admit that they already had a governor. In fact, there were three governors that day, including Henry T. Clark who held the office until Vance took over. North Carolina's \"surplus\"Â governor, Edward Stanly, was appointed by President Lincoln to be military governor of that part of North Carolina in Federal control.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12801
Author(s):
Abstract:
The first American born governor, Captain Samuel Stephens, succeeded William Drummond in October 1667. Son of Richard Stephens and Elizabeth Piersey, natives of London, Samuel was born in 1629, at Bolthrope plantation, Virginia.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12819
Author(s):
Abstract:
The Surveyor General in the Southern Province of Carolina prior to moving to the Albemarle, John Culpepper was tried for treason and later acquitted due the lack of settled government in the colony. Culpepper's actions are historically known as the Culpepper Rebellion.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12826
Author(s):
Abstract:
Appointed Governor of the Province of Carolina by the Lords Proprietors of London and set to begin his term in 1678, Seth Sothel was captured by pirates while en route to the New World. Eventually reaching the Albemarle in 1863, Sothel retained his post through 1688, at which point he was overthrown, tried, and convicted of oppression, tyranny, extortion, and bribery. Sothel was declared permanently incapable of holding the Office of Governor in the Albemarle and was exiled for twelve months.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
9.N.C. Governors XI: John Harvey 1679. by Norris, Jeannie Faris The State Vol. 28 Issue 16, Jan 1961
Record #:
12831
Author(s):
Abstract:
Among the first settlers into the Albemarle region, John Harvey arrived with seventeen persons, occupying the land between the Yawpin and Perquimans Rivers, an area known as Harvey's Neck. Appointed governor by the Lords Proprietors of London, in 1679, Harvey served six months in office prior to death.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12838
Author(s):
Abstract:
Appointed governor of the northern part of the province of Carolina in 1689, Philip Ludwell, native of Somerset, served through 1691, prior to returning to England in 1700. Recognizer of the Great Deed of Grant, Ludwell allowed Albemarle colonists to hold their land on the same basis as the colonists of Virginia. Ludwell's actions annoyed the Lords Proprietors of England, who, in response, forced Ludwell's removal in 1691.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12902
Author(s):
Abstract:
Born in Maryland in 1729, Richard Caswell served North Carolina as governor in 1776, 1777, 1778, 1785, 1786, and 1787. Surveyor, lawyer, legislator, and soldier, Caswell also served as delegate to the Constitutional Convention, held in Philadelphia. A Federalist, Caswell died on 5 November 1789, at a convention in Fayetteville.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12955
Author(s):
Abstract:
The first governor of North Carolina, Ralph Lane, appointed by Sir Richard Greenville, arrived via ship to the colony in July 1585. Troubles with local Native Americans compiled with the difficulties associated with caring for the 108 accompanying colonists, Lane gave up his position and returned to England with Sir Francis Drake in 1586.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13817
Author(s):
Abstract:
Jay Jenkins discusses inauguration plans for new governor, William B. Umstead. Jenkins describes the January 8th proceedings and includes details regarding serenade, official vehicles, and seal delivery.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13821
Author(s):
Abstract:
The first chief executive of the territory known as the Province of North Carolina, William Drummond served as the first governor in the state. Drummond was Governor of the Albemarle from 1663 to 1667. Drummond was hung for staging an uprising against Virginia governor Sir William Berkeley.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13824
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article lists the names and terms of every governor to serve in North Carolina and offers statistics regarding who was the first governor, who served the most terms, etc. Included is an illustration of the old capitol in Raleigh, destroyed by fire in 1831.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text: