Charles Manly

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Charles Manly
31st Governor of North Carolina
In office
January 1, 1849 – January 1, 1851
Preceded byWilliam Alexander Graham
Succeeded byDavid Settle Reid
Personal details
Born(1795-05-13)May 13, 1795
Chatham County, North Carolina
DiedMay 1, 1871(1871-05-01) (aged 75)
Raleigh, North Carolina
NationalityAmerican
Political partyWhig
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ProfessionLawyer

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

  1. ^ 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.

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Party political offices
Preceded by Whig nominee for Governor of North Carolina
1848, 1850
Succeeded by
John Kerr Jr.
Political offices
Preceded by Governor of North Carolina
1849–1851
Succeeded by