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924
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The author writes a letter to North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt, stating that there's much work to be done in the first six months of his administration.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 2, Jan 1993,
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37715
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Claim of Capt. John Gibbs to the Governorship of Albemarle County, 1689
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18577
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Watson discusses the life and death of former North Carolina governor Benjamin Smith. Although despised by many, Smith's generosity provided over 20,000 acres to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 53 Issue 1, Oct 2009,
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28643
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Benjamin Smith was a Revolutionary patriot, wealthy Brunswick County planter, Grand Master of the North Carolina Masons, longtime state legislator, and governor of North Carolina. This article describes his rise to prominence and power in the Lower Cape Fear during the turn of the nineteenth century.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 25 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
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28644
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Benjamin Smith was a general and governor of North Carolina who proved to be a subject of controversy. The General’s pretensions, particularly combined with his abiding interest in the military, made him the subject of a recriminatory newspaper debate in 1799.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, May 1982,
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10718
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While prohibition forces were fighting to dry out North Carolina, two of its governors candidly lent their names to endorsement of a brandy made in Pitt County. Governors Zebulon B. Vance and Thomas J. Jarvis both gave testimonials that appeared in paid advertisements in the Raleigh NEWS AND OBSERVER praising the quality of brandy produced by Pitt County distiller R. A. Bynum.
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12902
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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.
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1042
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Seventeen North Carolina citizens wrote essays proposing ideas and action for newly-elected Governor Jim Hunt.
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North Carolina Insight
(NoCar JK 4101 N3x), Vol. 14 Issue 3, Feb 1993,
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15924
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Daniel Fowle was a lawyer, state legislator, judge, and Governor of North Carolina. He served during the Civil War and was captured on Roanoke Island. Although nothing spectacular happening during his administration, few Governors were held in higher esteem than he was. He was the first Governor to occupy the newly built Governor's mansion. Fowle died in office after serving just over half of his four-year term.
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28628
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North Carolina Governor Daniel L. Russell was a nonconformist who offered radical alternatives to the economic and political dicta of the Democrats during the 1880s. Russell challenged southern sanctities concerning race, class and political party.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 20 Issue 3, May 1977,
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11002
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William B. Umstead is the only Governor of North Carolina to die in office in the 20th-century. He passed away November 7, 1954 and was succeeded by Lt. Gov. Luther H. Hodges.
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15742
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Recently, a historical marker to Dobbs County was erected on the spot of its old county courthouse near Goldsboro. Few people know the county existed and fewer know of the man for whom it was named, Arthur Dobbs. The county ceased in 1791 and three counties were formed from it--Lenoir (1791), and Greene and Wayne (1799). Dobbs was a colonial governor of the state, 1754-1765, surveyor-general of Ireland, a scholar and a scientist.
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38040
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Capt. Samuel Stephens, born in Virginia abt. 1629, was commissioned by the Virginia Council in 1661 as commander of the ‘Southern Plantation,’ and in 1767 the Lords Proprietors appointed him Governor. He was a successful governor and died in 1669, ‘full of years and wealth.” His widow remarried Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, one year later.
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15926
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Elias Carr, a well-known planter, leader of the North Carolina State Farmers' Alliance, and Governor, was born in Edgecombe County in 1839. Among his concerns were compulsory education, better rural schools, a more just tax system, lease of the North Carolina Railroad, and improvement of the state's roads.
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11230
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NC MAGAZINE profiles eight individuals in its annual Exceptional Women Leaders series whose work and decisions have an impact on North Carolina. They are Bev Perdue, Governor of North Carolina; Karen Albritton, president of Capstrat; Rosemary DePaolo, Chancellor, UNC-Wilmington; Nadine Hall, VP of Activewear, Hanesbrands; Carol Hevey, Executive VP, Time Warner Cable Carolinas Region; Elyse Cochran, President County Chamber of Commerce; Brenda Mills, Project Manager, City of Asheville; and Kim Saunders, President and CEO, Mechanics & Farmers Bank.
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