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Memucan Hunt —
of Granville
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina state senate from Granville County, 1777, 1779-81, 1788;
North
Carolina state treasurer, 1784-87.
In 1786, charges
of misconduct were brought against him and heard by the Legislature
in joint session; two days later, he was defeated for re-election.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Potter (c.1800-1842) —
of Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Williamsboro, Vance
County, N.C., about 1800.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1828, 1834; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1829-31; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Navy, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Red River and Fannin, 1840-42;
died in office 1842.
Resigned
from the U.S. Congress in 1831 after maiming
two men in a jealous rage; convicted,
and sentenced
to six months in prison.
Expelled
in 1834 from the North Carolina House for cheating
at cards.
Shot
and killed by
members of an opposing faction who surrounded his home, in Harrison
County (part now in Marion
County), Tex., March 2,
1842 (age about 42
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Marion County, Tex.; reinterment in
1928 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Thomas Lanier Clingman (1812-1897) —
also known as Thomas L. Clingman; "The Prince of
Politicians" —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Huntsville, Yadkin
County, N.C., July 27,
1812.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1840; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1843-45, 1847-58 (1st
District 1843-45, 1847-53, 8th District 1853-58); U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1858-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1868,
1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Died in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., November
3, 1897 (age 85 years, 99
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
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Thomas Bragg (1810-1872) —
of Northampton
County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., November
9, 1810.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1842; Governor of
North Carolina, 1855-59; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1859-61; Confederate
Attorney General, 1861-62.
Presbyterian.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., January
21, 1872 (age 61 years, 73
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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George Davis (1820-1896) —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Porter's Neck, Pender
County, N.C., March 1,
1820.
Lawyer;
Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; Senator
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; Confederate
Attorney General, 1864-65.
Episcopalian.
At the end of the Civil War, with other Confederate
officials, attempted
to flee overseas, but turned
himself in at Key West, Fla.; spent several months in prison
at Fort Hamilton; pardoned
in 1866.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., February
23, 1896 (age 75 years, 359
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.; statue erected 1911 at Third
and Market Streets, Wilmington, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Frederick Davis and Sarah Isabella (Eagles) Davis;
half-brother and fourth cousin of Horatio
Davis; married, November
17, 1842, to Mary Adelaide Polk (first cousin once removed of Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin once removed of James
Knox Polk and William
Hawkins Polk; third cousin of Marshall
Tate Polk); married, May 9,
1866, to Monimia Fairfax; great-grandnephew of Samuel
Ashe; cousin four different ways of John
Baptista Ashe (1748-1802), John
Baptista Ashe (1810-1857), Thomas
Samuel Ashe and William
Shepperd Ashe; cousin three different ways of Alfred
Moore Waddell; second cousin twice removed of William
Henry Hill. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS George Davis (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Woods Holden (1818-1892) —
also known as William W. Holden —
of Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Orange
County, N.C., November
24, 1818.
Newspaper
editor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North
Carolina, 1860;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; Governor of
North Carolina, 1865, 1868-70; postmaster at Raleigh,
N.C., 1873-81.
Methodist.
Impeached
and removed from
office as Governor in 1870, over corruption scandal.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., March 1,
1892 (age 73 years, 98
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Joseph Williams Thorne (b. 1816) —
also known as J. Williams Thorne —
of Chester
County, Pa.; Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Pennsylvania, December
25, 1816.
Republican. Delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1875; member
of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1875; expelled 1875;
member of North
Carolina state senate; elected 1876.
Expelled
in 1875 from the North Carolina House as an "infidel," reportedly for
his support of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Interment at Longwood
Cemetery, Longwood, Pa.
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Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912) —
also known as Alfred M. Waddell —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., September
16, 1834.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 3rd District, 1871-79;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1896;
notorious
leader of the overthrow of Wilmington's elected city government by white
supremacists on November 10, 1898; forced the incumbent mayor to
resign at gunpoint, and took his place; the offices of the Wilmington
Daily Record newspaper were burned,
and as many as 300 Black citizens of Wilmington were murdered;
mayor
of Wilmington, N.C., 1898-1906.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., March
17, 1912 (age 77 years, 183
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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James Kemp Doughton Sr. (1884-1973) —
of Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Alleghany
County, N.C., May 18,
1884.
Banker;
farmer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1948-57; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1951-57.
Methodist.
Indicted
for bank
fraud in 1928; tried
and acquitted.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a hospital
at Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C., March
17, 1973 (age 88 years, 303
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Methodist Church Cemetery, Sparta, N.C.
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Edward Gallatin Roberts (1878-1931) —
also known as Gallatin Roberts —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Flat Creek, Buncombe
County, N.C., October
26, 1878.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; Buncombe
County Attorney, 1907-08; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Buncombe County,
1911-16; mayor
of Asheville, N.C., 1919-23, 1927-30; as mayor, he found that
millions of dollars of city money were held in the failing Asheville
Central Bank and Trust Company; rather than bringing the bank down
and losing the money, he helped sustain it for a while by maintaining
city deposits there.
Presbyterian.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Following the collapse of Central Bank and Trust, and the city's loss
of $4 million in deposits, he was forced to
resign as mayor, and later indicted
over his alleged misuse
of city funds to support the bank; shot and
killed
himself in an office
lavatory, Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
25, 1931 (age 52 years, 122
days).
Interment at Green Hills Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob R. Roberts and Mary Elizabeth (Buckner) Roberts; married, January
19, 1907, to Mary Altha Sams. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Knoxville News-Sentinel,
May 13, 1931 |
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Luke Lea (1879-1945) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April
12, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; founder of the Nashville Tennesseean; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1911-17; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1912
(speaker);
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; in January 1919, after
the war was over, he led a group of U.S. Army officers in an unauthorized
attempt to seize former German leader Kaiser Wilhelm; they illegally
entered the Netherlands (which was neutral
territory) using forged
passports; he and the others were reprimanded
by the Army; following the collapse of the Asheville Central Bank and
Trust, he and others were indicted
in 1931 for bank
fraud; convicted
on three counts; sentenced to prison,
served two years before being paroled; ultimately pardoned
in 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Died, in Vanderbilt University Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
18, 1945 (age 66 years, 220
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Ike Franklin Andrews (1925-2010) —
also known as Ike F. Andrews —
of Siler City, Chatham
County, N.C.
Born in Bonlee, Chatham
County, N.C., September
2, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate 13th District, 1959-60; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1961-62, 1967-72;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from North
Carolina, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1973-85;
defeated, 1984.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Jaycees.
In October 1982, he was arrested
and charged
with drunk
driving.
Died in Carrboro, Orange
County, N.C., May 10,
2010 (age 84 years, 250
days).
Interment at Bonlee Baptist Church Cemetery, Bonlee, N.C.
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James C. Green (c.1922-2000) —
also known as Jimmy Green —
of Clarkton, Bladen
County, N.C.
Born about 1922.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1961-77; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1975-77; Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1977-85; candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1984.
Presbyterian.
Charged
in 1983 with accepting
a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but acquitted; convicted
of tax
evasion in 1997, fined,
and sentenced
to home
confinement.
Died at Bladen County Hospital,
Elizabethtown, Bladen
County, N.C., February
4, 2000 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Clarkton
Cemetery, Clarkton, N.C.
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (b. 1940) —
also known as Glenn Miller; "Frazier Glenn
Cross"; "Rounder" —
of North Carolina; Aurora, Lawrence
County, Mo.
Born in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., 1940.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; candidate in
Democratic primary for Governor of
North Carolina, 1984; candidate in Republican primary for North
Carolina state senate, 1986; convicted
on federal contempt
of court charges in 1986; sentenced
to one year in prison, but disappeared
while out on bond; later captured
in Missouri, along with four other Klansmen and a cache of weapons;
indicted
in 1987 for plotting robberies
and an assassination;
in a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded
guilty to a weapons
charge and to making threats
through the mail; served three years in prison;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 7th District, 2006; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 2010; on April 13, 2014, in an apparent hate
crime he shot
and killed three people at a Jewish community center and
retirement complex in Overland Park, Kansas.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2014.
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Frank W. Ballance Jr. (b. 1942) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Windsor, Bertie
County, N.C., February
15, 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer; librarian;
college
professor; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1982-85; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1989-2002; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1996,
2000;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 2003-04;
resigned 2004; indicted
in federal court in September 2004 on federal money
laundering charges
for diverting
state funds through a charitable foundation; pleaded
guilty to one count, sentenced
to four years in prison,
fined
$10,000, ordered to pay restitution,
and disbarred.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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John Reid Edwards (b. 1953) —
also known as John Edwards; Johnny Reid Edwards;
"Silk Pony"; "The Breck
Girl" —
of North Carolina.
Born in Seneca, Oconee
County, S.C., June 10,
1953.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1999-2005; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 2000,
2004;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2004,
2008;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2004; in August 2008, he acknowledged
an extramarital
affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, though at first he denied
having fathered her baby; this revelation discredited
him and ended his
political career.
Methodist.
In June, 2011, he was indicted
in federal court on campaign
finance charges, based on the argument that the donations he
received in 2007-08 to cover up his affair were illegal
contributions to his presidential campaign.
Still living as of 2014.
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Michael Francis Easley (b. 1950) —
also known as Mike F. Easley —
of Brunswick
County, N.C.
Born near Rocky Mount, Nash
County, N.C., March
23, 1950.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1990; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1993-2001; Governor of
North Carolina, 2001-09; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 2004,
2008;
pleaded
guilty in 2010 to failing
to report a 2006 helicopter ride in his campaign
finance filings.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta.
Still living as of 2014.
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