Charles Manly
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Charles Manly | |
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31st Governor of North Carolina | |
In office January 1, 1849 – January 1, 1851 | |
Preceded by | William Alexander Graham |
Succeeded by | David Settle Reid |
Personal details | |
Born | Chatham County, North Carolina | May 13, 1795
Died | May 1, 1871 Raleigh, North Carolina | (aged 75)
Nationality | American |
Political party | Whig |
Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Profession | Lawyer |
Charles Manly (May 13, 1795 – May 1, 1871) was a lawyer who served as the
David S. Reid, whom Manly had defeated in 1848. He was the last sitting governor of North Carolina to lose re-election until Pat McCrory
in 2016.
He was the brother of Matthias Evans Manly. He was also an ancestor of Alexander Manly, the African-American editor of the Wilmington Daily Record.[1] He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Notes
- ^ Zucchino 2020, p. 46.
References
- Zucchino, David (2020). Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 9780802128386.
External links
- UNC Chapel Hill
- North Carolina Historical Marker Archived July 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine