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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Wake County, N.C.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Hope Cemetery</a> <li>Raleigh <a href="cms07905">Nash Square</a> <li>Raleigh <a href="cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a> <li>Raleigh <a href="cms07588">Union Square</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms06543">Private or family graveyard</a> Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Stone (1770-1818) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BT-lived.html">Bertie County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BT-born.html">Bertie County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/02-17.html">February 17, 1770</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> at-large, 1799-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1801-07, 1813-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1808-10. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/10-07.html">October 7, 1818</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 232 days</a>). Interment in a private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000955">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410414">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/david-stone/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Hillcrest Cemetery</a> Cary, Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lucie Reavis Royall (1867-1959) — also known as Lucie Virginia Reavis; Lucie V. Reavis — of Cary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-born.html">Granville County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/05-12.html">May 12, 1867</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cary.html#2">Cary, N.C.</a>, 1900-14. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">renal failure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diabetes.html">diabetes</a>, in Duke University <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-died.html">Durham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/01-18.html">January 18, 1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 251 days</a>). Interment at Hillcrest Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of George James Reavis and Martha Hayes (Debnam) Reavis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/06-01.html">June 1, 1919</a>, to Valerius Addison Royall.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "The Inspired Word of God / Jesus Christ, My Salvation."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/32786544">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Wake Chapel Memorial Gardens</a> Fuquay-Varina, Wake County, North Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2178620&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lynton Yates Ballentine (1899-1964) — also known as Lynton Y. Ballentine; "Stag" — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Varina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/04-06.html">April 6, 1899</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">Dairy</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1945-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NC.html">1948</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cmagr.html">North Carolina commissioner of agriculture</a>, 1949-64; died in office 1964. Died in White Sulphur Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/GR-died.html">Greenbrier County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/07-19.html">July 19, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 104 days</a>). Interment at Wake Chapel Memorial Gardens. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Erastus Ballentine and Lillian (Yates) Ballentine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynton Y. Ballentine">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/24358154">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=71208">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Unknown Location</a> Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) — also known as J. Johnston Pettigrew — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/TY-born.html">Tyrrell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/07-04.html">July 4, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1856; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Mortally wounded at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Battle of Gettysburg</a>, and died soon after at Bunker Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BE-died.html">Berkeley County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-17.html">July 17, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 13 days</a>). Original interment somewhere; reinterment in 1865 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/TY-buried.html# ">Pettigrew Family Cemetery</a>, Tyrrell County, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Pettigrew Hall (built 1912), a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">building</a> at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-names.html">Chapel Hill, North Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS James J. Pettigrew (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; scrapped 1960) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Johnston Pettigrew">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11050">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01728">City Cemetery</a> Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Henry Haywood Jr. (1801-1852) — also known as William H. Haywood, Jr. — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/10-23.html">October 23, 1801</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1831, 1834-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for North Carolina</a>, 1840-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1843-46; resigned 1846. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/10-07.html">October 7, 1852</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 350 days</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Henry Haywood and Ann (Sheppard) Haywood; brother of Elizabeth Ruffin Haywood (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudley.html#618.44.81">Edward Bishop Dudley</a>) and Charity Hare Haywood (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#125.59.32">Charles Manly</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#879.71.49">Basil Charles Manly</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#104.76.53">William Dallas Polk Haywood</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0283.html">Manly-Haywood-Polk family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000411">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405278">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8092329">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Sitgreaves (1757-1802) — of North Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/index.html">1757</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina</a>, 1784; member of North Carolina state legislature, 1784; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for North Carolina</a>, 1790; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for North Carolina</a>, 1790-94, 1797-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Edenton, New Bern & Wilmington Districts of North Carolina</a>, 1794-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Albemarle, Cape Fear & Pamptico Districts of North Carolina</a>, 1801-02; died in office 1802. Died in Halifax, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-died.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/03-04.html">March 4, 1802</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">about 44 years</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000459">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409951">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2201&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/sitgreaves-john">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Romulus Mitchell Saunders (1791-1867) — also known as Romulus M. Saunders — of Milton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CS-lived.html">Caswell County</a>, N.C. Born near Milton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CS-born.html">Caswell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/03-03.html">March 3, 1791</a>. Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1815-19, 1850-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a>, 1821-27, 1841-45 (9th District 1821-27, 8th District 1841-43, 5th District 1843-45); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/attygn.html">North Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1828-34; state court judge in North Carolina, 1835-40, 1852-56; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1840; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1846-49. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/04-21.html">April 21, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 49 days</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000078">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409590">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/saunders-romulus-mitchell ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Dallas Polk Haywood (1810-1894) — also known as William Dallas Haywood — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/index.html">1810</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html">Mayor of Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1857-58, 1867-68. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/07-01.html">July 1, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">about 84 years</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Stephen Haywood and Delia (Hawkins) Haywood; married to Mary Elizabeth Cannon; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawkins.html#516.31.25">Philemon Hawkins</a>; first cousin of Elizabeth Ruffin Haywood (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudley.html#618.44.81">Edward Bishop Dudley</a>), Charity Hare Haywood (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#125.59.32">Charles Manly</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#962.85.27">William Henry Haywood Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#879.71.49">Basil Charles Manly</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#181.41.38">Rufus King Polk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#632.78.03">Frank Lyon Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#137.40.12">Paul Fletcher Faison</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#178.29.67">Elizabeth Polk Guest</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#032.14.04">Raymond R. Guest</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0256.html">Ashe-Polk family</a> of North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0044.html">Polk family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0283.html">Manly-Haywood-Polk family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28250231">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Manly (1795-1871) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CH-born.html">Chatham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/05-13.html">May 13, 1795</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1849-51. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/05-01.html">May 1, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 353 days</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Basil Manly and Elizabeth (Maultsby) Manly; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#357.91.51">Matthias Evans Manly</a>; married to Charity Hare Haywood (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#962.85.27">William Henry Haywood Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#104.76.53">William Dallas Polk Haywood</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#879.71.49">Basil Charles Manly</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#822.40.88">Clement Manly</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0283.html">Manly-Haywood-Polk family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-manly/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Manly">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8087011">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Sion Hart Rogers (1825-1874) — also known as Sion H. Rogers — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/index.html">1825</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 4th District, 1853-55, 1871-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/attygn.html">North Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1863-68. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/index.html">1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000402">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409369">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Kenneth Rayner (1808-1884) — of North Carolina. Born in North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/index.html">1808</a>. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a>, 1839-45 (1st District 1839-43, 9th District 1843-45). Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/index.html">1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000087">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409067">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (1820-1862) — also known as Lawrence O'B. Branch — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Enfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/11-28.html">November 28, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 4th District, 1855-61; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Killed</a> in the battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-17.html">September 17, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 293 days</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branch.html#230.61.82">William Augustus Blount Branch</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branch.html#433.58.63">John Branch Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10147.html">Branch family</a> of Enfield, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000764">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401723">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Hines (d. 1851) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ED-lived.html">Edgecombe County</a>, N.C. Born in Tarboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ED-born.html">Edgecombe County</a>, N.C. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Edgecombe County, 1824; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 3rd District, 1825-27; defeated, 1826. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/11-20.html">November 20, 1851</a>. Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000634">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412052">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Absalom Tatom (1742-1802) — of North Carolina. Born in North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/index.html">1742</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> at-large, 1795-96; member of North Carolina state legislature, 1797. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/12-20.html">December 20, 1802</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000050">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410638">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William White (1762-1811) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/LR-lived.html">Lenoir County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/index.html">1762</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Lenoir County, 1792-95; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a> from Lenoir County, 1795-96, 1798; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of North Carolina</a>, 1798-1810. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/index.html">1811</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at City Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joel Lane (c.1740-1795) — of North Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., about 1740. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1770; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1782-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1788, 1789. Provided the site for Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/03-29.html">March 29, 1795</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">about 55 years</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1969 at City Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#521.29.73">Joseph Lane</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/suvacki-swampfox.html#878.55.54">David Lowry Swain</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10331.html">Lane-Colquitt family</a> of North Carolina.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00549">Montlawn Memorial Park</a> Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Melville Broughton (1888-1949) — also known as J. Melville Broughton — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/11-17.html">November 17, 1888</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1927-29; candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1941-45; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NC.html">1948</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/index.html">1944</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1948-49; died in office 1949. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/03-06.html">March 6, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 109 days</a>). Interment at Montlawn Memorial Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Melville Broughton and Sallie (Harris) Broughton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/12-14.html">December 14, 1916</a>, to Alice Harper Willson; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/broughton.html#937.84.70">Joseph Melville Broughton Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000894">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401851">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/joseph-melville-broughton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Melville Broughton">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06763">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a> Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Clarence Everett Lightner (1921-2002) — also known as Clarence E. Lightner — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/08-15.html">August 15, 1921</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/funeral.html">funeral director</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html">mayor of Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1973-75; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1977-78; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/NC.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NC.html">2000</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omega-psi-phi.html">Omega Psi Phi</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/07-08.html">July 8, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 327 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Calvin E. Lightner and Mammie (Blackmon) Lightner; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/">1946</a> to Marguerite Massey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Clarence E. Lightner <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Public Safety Center</a> (proposed in 2003, ultimately not built), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-names.html">Raleigh, North Carolina</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence Lightner">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12909325">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07905">Nash Square</a> Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-18.html">May 18, 1862</a>. Democrat. North Carolina state printer, 1887-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor and publisher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">Democratic National Committee from North Carolina</a>, 1896-1916; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1913-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NC.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NC.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NC.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>); U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1933-41. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/01-15.html">January 15, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 242 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a>; statue at Nash Square. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Josephus Daniels and Mary (Cleves) Daniels; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/05-02.html">May 2, 1888</a>, to Addie Worth Bagley (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#304.45.08">Jonathan Worth</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#778.76.23">Jonathan Worth Daniels</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11986.html">Daniels-Bagley-Worth family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus Daniels">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/daniels-josephus ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/446/000176915">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199993">Internet Movie Database profile</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a> Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina Founded 1869 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-18.html">May 18, 1862</a>. Democrat. North Carolina state printer, 1887-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor and publisher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">Democratic National Committee from North Carolina</a>, 1896-1916; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1913-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NC.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NC.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NC.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>); U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1933-41. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/01-15.html">January 15, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 242 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery; statue at <a href="#cms07905">Nash Square</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Josephus Daniels and Mary (Cleves) Daniels; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/05-02.html">May 2, 1888</a>, to Addie Worth Bagley (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#304.45.08">Jonathan Worth</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#778.76.23">Jonathan Worth Daniels</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11986.html">Daniels-Bagley-Worth family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus Daniels">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/daniels-josephus ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/446/000176915">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199993">Internet Movie Database profile</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Edmund Badger (1795-1866) — also known as George E. Badger — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in New Bern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-born.html">Craven County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/04-17.html">April 17, 1795</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of North Carolina state legislature, 1816; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1820-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1841; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1846-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to North Carolina secession convention</a>, 1861. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/05-11.html">May 11, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 24 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Badger and Lydia (Cogdell) Badger; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/12-24.html">December 24, 1818</a>, to Rebecca Turner; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/">1826</a> to Mary Brown Polk; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/04-16.html">April 16, 1836</a>, to Delia (Haywood) Williams; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#137.40.12">Paul Fletcher Faison</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0044.html">Polk family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0283.html">Manly-Haywood-Polk family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS George E. Badger (built 1942-43 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; scrapped 1972) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000022">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401027">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Edmund Badger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8091123">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (1830-1892) — also known as A. S. Merrimon — of Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-lived.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C.; Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born near Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-born.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/09-15.html">September 15, 1830</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1860-61; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; solicitor, 8th Judicial District, 1861-65; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1866-67; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1872; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1873-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spaj.html">justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1883-89; defeated, 1868; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1889-92; died in office 1892. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/11-14.html">November 14, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 60 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of Mary P. Merrimon (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otjen-overstolz.html#377.04.53">Lee Slater Overman</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000659">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407645">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus Summerfield Merrimon">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) — also known as Josiah W. Bailey — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Warrenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/09-14.html">September 14, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 4th North Carolina District, 1913-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1931-46; died in office 1946; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NC.html">1932</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anti-saloon-league.html">Anti-Saloon League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/12-15.html">December 15, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 92 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Christopher Thomas Bailey and Annie Sarah Bailey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/08-16.html">August 16, 1916</a>, to Edith Pou.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000046">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401051">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah Bailey">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8091147">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/75/entry"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/612/65.09.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="Jesse Helms"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jesse Alexander Helms (1921-2008) — also known as Jesse Helms — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/10-18.html">October 18, 1921</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1973-2003. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/young-ams-freedom.html">Young Americans for Freedom</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/exchange-club.html">Exchange Club</a>. Died, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">nursing home</a> at Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/07-04.html">July 4, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 260 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jesse Helms; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/10-31.html">October 31, 1942</a>, to Dorothy Jane 'Dot' Coble.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyle.html#667.24.53">Terrence William Boyle</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rothacker-rowden.html#157.25.83">David Rouzer</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000463">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300154">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse Helms">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/595/000022529">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0375749">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28031146">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Jesse Helms: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375508848/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375508848&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Here's Where I Stand : A Memoir</a> (2005)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: North Carolina History Project</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Bragg (1810-1872) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NO-lived.html">Northampton County</a>, N.C.; Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Warrenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/11-09.html">November 9, 1810</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1842; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1855-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1859-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/confed.html">Confederate Attorney General</a>, 1861-62. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/civil-war-slavery.html">Southern senators</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">expelled</a> in absentia on July 11, 1861. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/01-21.html">January 21, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000759">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401718">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-bragg/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Clark (1846-1924) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/08-19.html">August 19, 1846</a>. Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1885-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spaj.html">justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1889-1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1903-24; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1912. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/05-20.html">May 20, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 275 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of David Clark and Anna M. (Thorne) Clark; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/01-28.html">January 28, 1874</a>, to Susan Washington Graham (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham9.html#475.96.00">William Alexander Graham (1804-1875)</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham5.html#449.00.65">John Washington Graham</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham9.html#555.50.07">William Alexander Graham (1839-1923)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham1.html#208.18.99">Augustus Washington Graham</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham5.html#668.68.49">James Graham</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10570.html">Graham family</a> of Hillsborough, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/73324603">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Basil Charles Manly (1839-1882) — also known as Basil C. Manly — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/05-09.html">May 9, 1839</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html">mayor of Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1875-82; died in office 1882. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/05-15.html">May 15, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 6 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#125.59.32">Charles Manly</a> and Charity Hare (Haywood) Manly; married to Lucy Haywood Bryan; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#962.85.27">William Henry Haywood Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#357.91.51">Matthias Evans Manly</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#822.40.88">Clement Manly</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#104.76.53">William Dallas Polk Haywood</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0283.html">Manly-Haywood-Polk family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8091959">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Willis Smith (1887-1953) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-born.html">Norfolk</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/12-19.html">December 19, 1887</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1927-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the North Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1931-32; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NC.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1950-53; died in office 1953. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-coif.html">Order of the Coif</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-phi-epsilon.html">Sigma Phi Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/walter-reed.html">Bethesda Naval Hospital</a>, Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/06-26.html">June 26, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 189 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Willis Smith and Mary Shaw (Creecy) Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/04-30.html">April 30, 1919</a>, to Anna Lee.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000639">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410113">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Gould Fowle (1831-1891) — also known as Daniel G. Fowle — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/03-03.html">March 3, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1889-91; died in office 1891. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/04-07.html">April 7, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/daniel-gould-fowle/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Woods Holden (1818-1892) — also known as William W. Holden — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/11-24.html">November 24, 1818</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/NC.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to North Carolina secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1865, 1868-70; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html#2">Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1873-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Impeached</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as Governor in 1870, over corruption <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/03-01.html">March 1, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Ann Augusta Young; father of Ida Augustus Holden (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#490.03.75">Calvin Josiah Cowles</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#379.83.92">Charles Holden Cowles</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-woods-holden/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Lowry Swain (1801-1868) — also known as David L. Swain — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-lived.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C.; Chapel Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, N.C. Born in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-log-cabin.html">log cabin</a> near Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-born.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/01-04.html">January 4, 1801</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1824-30; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1830-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1832-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, University of North Carolina, 1835-68. Died in Chapel Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/08-27.html">August 27, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Caroline Aycock (Lane) Swain and George Charles Swain; married to Eleanor Hope White; father of Eleanor Hope Swain (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/athon-atkins.html#932.15.39">Smith Dykins Atkins</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#190.56.28">Joel Lane</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson5.html#801.45.98">James Lowry Robinson</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#521.29.73">Joseph Lane</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10331.html">Lane-Colquitt family</a> of North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/david-lowry-swain/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23298">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jonathan Worth (1802-1869) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RA-lived.html">Randolph County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RA-born.html">Randolph County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/11-18.html">November 18, 1802</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/trea.html">North Carolina state treasurer</a>, 1862-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1865-68. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/09-05.html">September 5, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 291 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/10-20.html">October 20, 1824</a>, to Martitia Daniel; grandfather of Addie Worth Bagley (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#646.82.53">Josephus Daniels</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#778.76.23">Jonathan Worth Daniels</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11986.html">Daniels-Bagley-Worth family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/jonathan-worth/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan Worth (Governor)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Henry Separk (1830-1875) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/pb-born.html">Petersburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/06-25.html">June 25, 1830</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html">Mayor of Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1875; died in office 1875. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/08-30.html">August 30, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 66 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Brantley Aycock (1859-1912) — also known as Charles B. Aycock — of Goldsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, N.C. Born in Nahunta Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/11-01.html">November 1, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a>, 1893-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1901-05. Fell dead, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">giving a speech</a> in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/theaters.html">theater</a> at Birmingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/04-04.html">April 4, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 155 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery; statue at <a href="#cms07588">Union Square</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/">1881</a> to Verena D. Woodward; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/">1891</a> to Cora L. Woodard.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-brantley-aycock/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> J. S. Wynne (d. 1934) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html">Mayor of Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1909-11. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/index.html">1934</a>. Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Killian Moore (1906-1986) — also known as Dan K. Moore — of Canton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HY-lived.html">Haywood County</a>, N.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/04-02.html">April 2, 1906</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NC.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1965-69. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/09-07.html">September 7, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 158 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/dan-killian-moore/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/719/000120359">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Nathan Harrell Smith (1812-1889) — also known as William N. H. Smith — of Murfreesboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HR-lived.html">Hertford County</a>, N.C. Born in Murfreesboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HR-born.html">Hertford County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/09-24.html">September 24, 1812</a>. Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1840, 1858, 1868; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 1st District, 1859-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spaj.html">justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1878-89. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/11-14.html">November 14, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 51 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000634">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410108">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edwin Godwin Reade (1812-1894) — of North Carolina. Born in Mt. Tirzah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/PE-born.html">Person County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/11-13.html">November 13, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 5th District, 1855-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccsen.html">Senator from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1864; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spaj.html">justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1865-79. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/10-18.html">October 18, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 339 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000095">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409075">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Horn Battle (1802-1879) — also known as William H. Battle — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, N.C.; Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ED-born.html">Edgecombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/index.html">1802</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Franklin County, 1833-34; delegate to Whig National Convention from North Carolina, 1839; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spaj.html">justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1848, 1852-67; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/index.html">1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">about 77 years</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battle.html#535.36.41">Kemp Plummer Battle</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870) — also known as John H. Bryan — of New Bern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-lived.html">Craven County</a>, N.C.; Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in New Bern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-born.html">Craven County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/11-04.html">November 4, 1798</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1823-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 4th District, 1825-29. Slaveowner. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/05-19.html">May 19, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 196 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000988">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401940">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Ruffin Cox (1831-1919) — also known as William R. Cox — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C.; Penelo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ED-lived.html">Edgecombe County</a>, N.C. Born in Scotland Neck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/03-11.html">March 11, 1831</a>. Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; president, Chatham Coal Field <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; district judge in North Carolina 4th District, 1874-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 4th District, 1881-87. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/12-26.html">December 26, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas C. Cox.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000841">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402958">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Nichols (1834-1917) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born near Eagle Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/11-14.html">November 14, 1834</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html#2">Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1881-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 4th District, 1887-89; defeated, 1888. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/09-22.html">September 22, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 312 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000091">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408176">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Winder Russell Harris (1888-1973) — also known as Winder R. Harris — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-lived.html">Norfolk</a>, Va. Born in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/12-03.html">December 3, 1888</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 2nd District, 1941-44. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/02-24.html">February 24, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 83 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000260">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405137">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Charles Fuller (1832-1901) — of North Carolina. Born in Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/02-27.html">February 27, 1832</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1864-65. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/10-20.html">October 20, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 235 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4H0fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA61"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/573/50.40.jpg" width=70 height=88 border=0 alt="James Y. Joyner"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Yadkin Joyner (1862-1954) — also known as James Y. Joyner — of La Grange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/LR-lived.html">Lenoir County</a>, N.C.; Goldsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, N.C.; Greensboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-lived.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/08-07.html">August 7, 1862</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/LR-officials.html">Lenoir County Superintendent of Schools</a>, 1882-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">college professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sppi.html">North Carolina superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1902-19; one of the organizers of the Virginia-Carolina <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tobacco.html">Tobacco Growers</a> Cooperative Association, 1922. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/LR-died.html">Lenoir County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/01-24.html">January 24, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Joyner and Sarah Ann 'Sallie' (Wooten) Joyner; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/">1887</a> to Effie Harper Rouse.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/66460297">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: American Review of Reviews, January 1922</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) — also known as Kemp P. Battle — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Louisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/12-19.html">December 19, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to North Carolina secession convention</a>, 1861; president, Chatham <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a> during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/trea.html">North Carolina state treasurer</a>, 1866-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, University of North Carolina, 1876-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">historian</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/02-04.html">February 4, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 47 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battle.html#261.71.69">William Horn Battle</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Battle Hall (built 1912), a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">building</a> at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-names.html">Chapel Hill, North Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp P. Battle">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892) — of North Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/AN-born.html">Anson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/04-24.html">April 24, 1837</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cmagr.html">North Carolina commissioner of agriculture</a>, 1877-80; national president of the Farmers' Alliance. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>. Founder of Polkton, N.C. Elected to the North Carolina Agricultural <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/other-hof.html">Hall of Fame</a> in 1957. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/bladder.html">bladder hemorrhage</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/06-11.html">June 11, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 48 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Andrew Polk and Sereba Autry Polk; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/">1857</a> to Sarah Pamela Gaddy.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Editor, orator, patriot, Christian. The friend of popular education and civil liberty."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas L. Polk">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/861/000180321">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9271702">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ivey Goodman Riddick (1861-1920) — also known as Ivey G. Riddick — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/12-03.html">December 3, 1861</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Franklin County, 1903-04. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/throat-cancer.html">throat cancer</a>, in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/01-01.html">January 1, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 29 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Willie Goodman Riddick and Annie Ivey (Jones) Riddick; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/">1888</a> to Annie Dunn.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/63883912">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/137/40.12.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Paul F. Faison"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Paul Fletcher Faison (1882-1967) — also known as Paul F. Faison — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PH-lived.html">Philippines</a>; Canton (Guangzhou), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-lived.html">China</a>; Tientsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-lived.html">China</a>; Tokyo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-lived.html">Japan</a>. Born in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/11-15.html">November 15, 1882</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Canton</a>, 1918-19. Died in Tokyo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-died.html">Japan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/11-18.html">November 18, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Paul Fletcher Faison (1840-1896) and Annice Haywood (Badger) Faison; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/11-19.html">November 19, 1920</a>, to Eugenie Demetrie Babushkina; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/03-09.html">March 9, 1948</a>, to Nadia Kamershtain; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/">1952</a> to Daphne Spratt; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#993.29.00">George Edmund Badger</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawkins.html#516.31.25">Philemon Hawkins</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#104.76.53">William Dallas Polk Haywood</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#181.41.38">Rufus King Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#632.78.03">Frank Lyon Polk</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#178.29.67">Elizabeth Polk Guest</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#032.14.04">Raymond R. Guest</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0044.html">Polk family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0283.html">Manly-Haywood-Polk family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/95630632">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: U.S. passport application (1918)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07588">Union Square</a> Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894) — also known as Zebulon B. Vance — of Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-lived.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C.; Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-lived.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C. Born in Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-born.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/05-13.html">May 13, 1830</a>. Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 8th District, 1858-61; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1862-65, 1877-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1879-94; died in office 1894. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/04-14.html">April 14, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 336 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-buried.html#cms00551">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Asheville, N.C.; statue at Union Square. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of David Vance and Elmira Margaret (Baird) Vance; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vance.html#886.53.04">Robert Brank Vance (1828-1899)</a>; married to Harriette Newell Espy and Florence Steele; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vance.html#202.99.97">Thomas Malvern Vance</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vance.html#687.76.65">Robert Brank Vance (1793-1827)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11112.html">Vance family</a> of Asheville, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otjen-overstolz.html#377.04.53">Lee S. Overman</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/VA.html">Vance County, N.C.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Vance Hall (built 1912), a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">building</a> at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-names.html">Chapel Hill, North Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000021">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411117">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/zebulon-baird-vance/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/631/000050481">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6654646">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Zebulon B. Vance: Cordelia Camp, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0865261881/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0865261881&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Governor Vance : a life for young people</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Brantley Aycock (1859-1912) — also known as Charles B. Aycock — of Goldsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, N.C. Born in Nahunta Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/11-01.html">November 1, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a>, 1893-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1901-05. Fell dead, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">giving a speech</a> in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/theaters.html">theater</a> at Birmingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/04-04.html">April 4, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 155 days</a>). 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