Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802) —
of Craven
County, N.C.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., March
25, 1758.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1781; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1783-85; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Governor of
North Carolina, 1792-95; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1798-1801 (10th District
1798-99, at-large 1799-1801); member of North
Carolina state senate, 1801.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in in a duel with
John
Stanly, his opponent and successor in Congress, and died in New
Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
6, 1802 (age 44 years, 165
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Craven County, N.C.
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Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. (1796-1850) —
also known as Richard D. Spaight, Jr. —
of New Bern, Craven
County, N.C.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., 1796.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1823-25; Governor of
North Carolina, 1835-36.
Slaveowner.
Died in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., November
2, 1850 (age about 54
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Craven County, N.C.
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Richard Spaight Donnell (1820-1867) —
of North Carolina.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
20, 1820.
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1847-49; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1860.
Slaveowner.
Died in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., June 3,
1867 (age 46 years, 256
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.
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