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William Rufus King of North Carolina holds the distinction of being the only U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee who was elected and sworn in but never served. King, was born in Sampson County in 1786, was unanimously nominated as Franklin Pierce's running mate in 1852. On Inauguration Day King was in Havana, Cuba, visiting for his health. It was there that he took the oath of office and, six weeks later, died before he could return to Washington, D.C.
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In 1868, former Raleigh newspaper editor William W. Holden was elected Governor of North Carolina. Following accounts of civil unrest in Alamance and Caswell counties, Holden declared martial law and delegated enforcement to Col. George W. Kirk, who raised a force of 670 men, took over the courthouses in Graham and Yanceyville, made himself military dictator of the two counties, and arrested more than 100 persons. Subsequent to the Kirk-Holden War, as it came to be known, Holden was impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of illegally arresting 105 citizens, recruiting soldiers illegally, and refusing to obey a writ of habeas corpus. Holden was convicted on six of eight charges and became the only North Carolina Governor to be removed from office by impeachment.
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10604
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Recent rejection of liquor by the drink in towns across North Carolina is a reminder of our state's 150 year history supporting prohibition. The state's first temperance society was founded in Guilford County in 1822. Four years later, Orange County Presbyterians formed the Society for the Suppression of Intemperance. The Sons of Temperance, a national fraternal order, launched a Raleigh chapter in 1842, but met with limited success until an 1851 membership drive featuring temperance lecturer Philip S. White. By year's end, North Carolina boasted 12,000 members in 281 chapters.
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10654
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After Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter on April, 12, 1861, North Carolina remained at peace and in the Union, having already rejected by popular vote a proposed state convention for the discussion of secession. However, when President Lincoln requested troops to quell what he called the Southern insurrection, Governor Ellis' mood and that of the general public changed. Governor Ellis replied that the Union cause \"can get no troops from North Carolina\" and he immediately ordered the seizure of U.S. Forts Caswell and Johnson at the mouth of the Cape Fear, the U.S. Mint in Charlotte, and the U.S. Arsenal in Fayetteville. He then called for an emergency convention, slated for May 20, at which all 120 delegates voted unanimously for secession.
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10677
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Bath's St. Thomas Episcopal Church, North Carolina's oldest church in its oldest town, was not merely the center of religious study in the community. Like most early American denominations, it was also the local community's primary center of discipline and legal recourse. Most churches forbade its members from taking a fellow member to court before \"gospel steps\" had been taken. As the antebellum period progressed and the church began to gradually lose control of its members, church courts became less and less effective.
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John Branch of Halifax County was the first North Carolinian to serve in a United States Cabinet position. President Andrew Jackson appointed him. He is the only person to be appointed governor of two states. Branch was Secretary of the Navy under Andrew Jackson, governor of North Carolina, and later appointed Florida's first governor by President Tyler. He held numerous other positions at the state and national level.
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