Gabriel Holmes
Gabriel Holmes | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 5th district | |
| In office March 4, 1825 – September 26, 1829 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Hooks |
| Succeeded by | Edward Bishop Dudley |
| Governor of North Carolina | |
| In office December 7, 1821 – December 7, 1824 | |
| Preceded by | Jesse Franklin |
| Succeeded by | Hutchins Gordon Burton |
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| Born | 1769 near Clinton, Province of North Carolina, British America |
| Died | (aged 59–60) near Clinton, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Jacksonian |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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Gabriel Holmes (1769 – September 26, 1829) was the
21st Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1821 to 1824. He also served as a Representative from North Carolina. He was non-aligned
and represented no political party.
Biography
Gabriel Holmes was born near
Twenty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1825, until his death near Clinton, Sampson County, N.C., September 26, 1829.[1]
He was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Twentieth Congress).
He was buried in the John Sampson Cemetery. His body was moved there on Memorial Day, 1984, by the Sampson County Historical Society.[2]
He was the father of the
Theophilus H. Holmes
.
See also
References
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. IV. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 423. Retrieved December 6, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ N.C. Archives
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