David Settle Reid

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David Settle Reid
Willie P. Mangum
Succeeded byThomas Bragg
Member of the North Carolina Senate
In office
1835–1842
Personal details
Born(1813-04-19)April 19, 1813
Rockingham County, North Carolina
DiedJune 19, 1891(1891-06-19) (aged 78)
Reidsville, North Carolina
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseHenrietta Settle
RelationsReuben Reid (Father)
Elizabeth Settle Reid (Mother)

David Settle Reid (April 19, 1813 – June 19, 1891) was the

U.S. Senator from December 1854 to March 1859. His uncle and eventual father-in-law was Congressman Thomas Settle
.

He was born in what would later be

North Carolina House of Commons and of the North Carolina Senate. It was assumed that more voters would only increase the Whig domination of the state, but the Whigs denounced suffrage reform as "a system of communism unjust and Jacobinical." To everyone's surprise, Reid lost to Charles Manly by only 854 votes. In 1850, Reid defeated Manly by 2,853 votes, becoming the first elected Democratic governor of North Carolina.[1]
He was reelected Governor in 1852.

In the United States Senate, Reid was chairman of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. He sought but was denied a full term in the Senate when he lost a three-way internal party fight with

Washington Peace Conference to try to prevent the American Civil War. Reid was a member of a state constitutional convention in 1875. In the early 1870s Reid moved from his farm on the Dan River to the nearby seat of Rockingham County Wentworth
where he continued to practice law and was respected as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party.

In May 1881 Reid suffered a serious stroke at Wentworth and was soon moved to his elder son's Reidsville home where he died in June 1891 and was buried in nearby Greenview Cemetery. His widow and first cousin, Henrietta Settle Reid, died in 1913 and was buried by her husband. None of the few remaining descendants of David Settle Reid live today in his native Rockingham County.

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Governor Reid is seen in the foreground of this 1861 photo of the North Carolina State Capitol.
Party political offices
Preceded by
James B. Shepard
Democratic nominee for Governor of North Carolina
1848, 1850, 1852
Succeeded by
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 3rd congressional district

March 4, 1843 – March 4, 1847
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Governor of North Carolina
1851–1854
Succeeded by
U.S. Senate
Preceded by
Willie Mangum
Thomas Clingman
Succeeded by