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Robert Rice Reynolds was a US Senator from Asheville who served from 1933 to 1945.
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Daniel Russell, judge, Congressman, and Governor, was born in Brunswick County, near Wilmington, in 1845. In 1896, he was elected Governor on the Republican ticket. The two years of his administration were probably the worst the state has ever experienced. African Americans held office all over the state; the Legislature was incompetent; disorder reigned in both Houses sometimes, and police were required to keep order; race riots were occurring or were threatened; the election of Democrat majorities in 1898 brought back a semblance of order to the Legislature.
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Locke Craig, a native of Bertie County, practiced law for many years in Asheville, and in 1908, he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Governor. However, he came back in 1912 to win the Governorship. Among his important achievements, were an increase in state school funding which allowed each county to have a six-month school term; creation of the State Highway Commission and the Fisheries Commission; and starting a real road-building program.
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\"As you love your state, hold Robeson [County]!\" This is the most famous political battle cry of North Carolina and originated over conflicts stemming from electing delegates to the 1868 Constitutional Convention.
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Bryant continues his series of articles, this time recounting a stormy period in North Carolina politics and the part Marion Butler played in it. Butler was an agrarian leader and United States Senator.
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The issue of free silver coinage deeply affected the politics of North Carolina between 1892 and 1896. North Carolina Democrats opposed 1892 presidential nominee Grover Cleveland's 'gold bug' stand and when elected, he was blamed for the panic of 1893 and various other fiscal issues. In 1894, North Carolina Populists began supporting Republicans causing the defeat of many Democratic politicians. While both state Democrats and Populists supported the presidential bid of William Jennings Bryan, they ran separate governor candidates, which led to a Republican victory.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 3, July 1982,
p230-251 , por, f
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19698
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The article looks at the various attempts by state politicians to enlist the \"disfranchised\" to their political causes, including refusal to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. The author attempts to both quantify and qualify those who considered themselves disfranchised following defeat in the Civil War and this group's influence on government.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 11 Issue 4, Oct 1934,
p271-283, f
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Letters to William E. Chandler during Reconstruction are reprinted here because of these highlight the state's political climate during this era. Chandler functioned as the Secretary of the National Republican Committee for the campaigns of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880. In this capacity, he received many letters from North Carolina Republicans stating their views on Reconstruction and politics both within the state and nationally. Reprinted here are letters from January 1868 through January 1878.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1942,
p59-94, f
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The author revisites the 33 North Carolinians that have so far (1942) been elected to the US Senate.
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Bryant continues his series of articles, this time recalling the events in the late 1890s when the white politicians and their allies regained control of the state and local governments from African Americans who had taken them over in the years following the Civil War. As a young reporter on a Charlotte newspaper, Bryant had been assigned to write about the African American officeholders in the eastern counties and their activities.
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Furnifold McLendel Simmons, known as “The Senator,†was born in New Bern in 1854. Although he did not attend law school, he passed both of his law examinations and practiced law in Jones County, New Bern, and Goldsboro. The seventeen-year period following Reconstruction was controlled by the Democratic Party, an era called the Bourbon Democracy. When people's cries for tax reform went unheeded, a new political party called the Populist Party was formed to run against both Democrats and Republicans in 1892. During this period of upheaval, Simmons accepted the position of chairman of the state Democratic party and helped to put Elias Carr in the governor's office, also in 1892. These activities were the beginning of what would be known as “the Simmons Machine.†In 1898, Simmons was again appointed chairman of the Democratic Party, which used the platform “Black Supremacy or White Supremacy in North Carolina?†and employed red-shirted horsemen to keep African Americans from voting. Democrats regained control of the General Assembly, and in 1899 Simmons proposed a suffrage amendment and grandfather clause to discourage African American voters. Simmons helped elect Charles Brantley Aycock, the Democratic nominee, to the governor's office in 1900, and from 1901-1931 Simmons served as a United States Senator.\r\n
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Both the success and criticism of the “Simmons Machine,†headed by Furnifold McLendel Simmons, stemmed largely from the fact that it announced its gubernatorial candidates over four or eight years in advance of the election. This created a momentum and continuity against which opponents had little recourse. Another reason for the machine's success was that it could offer well-qualified candidates for governor from within its own ranks. It also engaged in red-shirting, a practice where horsemen in red shirts prevented African-Americans from voting, and falsifying absentee ballots. It wasn't until 1930, when Simmons lost re-election for a sixth US Senate term, that the machine stopped being a political threat.
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Thomas Walter Bickett, a native of Monroe, was the attorney-general (1909-17) before being elected Governor in 1917. Shortly after his inauguration, the United States entered World War I; he received high marks from the citizenry for his leadership during that period. Of the forty-eight measures he recommended to the Legislature during his term, forty were passed, including increased teacher salaries; broader agricultural education; expansion of public health; better rural-life conditions; and a more humane prison administration.
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William Kitchen, a lawyer, Congressman, and Governor of North Carolina, was born near Scotland Neck in Halifax County. He was elected Governor in 1908 after a fierce party fight among Democrats for the nomination. During his term industrial progress continued, highways were improved, and the General Assembly created two new counties Hoke and Avery. As a debater he had no equal in the state.
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