North Carolina General Assembly of 1862–1864
74th North Carolina General Assembly (1862–1864) | |||||||||||
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Overview | |||||||||||
Legislative body | North Carolina General Assembly | ||||||||||
Jurisdiction | North Carolina, Confederate States of America | ||||||||||
Meeting place | Raleigh | ||||||||||
Term | 1862–1864 | ||||||||||
Senate | |||||||||||
Members | 50 Senators | ||||||||||
Speaker | Giles Mebane | ||||||||||
Clerk | Charles R. Thomas | ||||||||||
Assistant Clerk | L. C. Edwards | ||||||||||
Doorkeeper | William J. Page | ||||||||||
Assistant Doorkeeper | C. C. Tally | ||||||||||
Party control | Confederate Party | ||||||||||
House of Commons | |||||||||||
Members | 120 Delegates | ||||||||||
Speaker | Robert B. Gilliam,[note 1] Richard Spaight Donnell, Marmaduke Swain Robins[note 2] | ||||||||||
Speaker protem | William E. Mann[note 3] | ||||||||||
Clerk | Henry E. Colton | ||||||||||
Party control | Confederate Party | ||||||||||
Sessions | |||||||||||
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The
Assembly membership
House of Commons members
There were 82 counties with 120 delegates, 5 counties with three delegates, 28 counties with two delegates, and 49 counties with one delegate. The House of Commons delegates elected a Speaker (Richard Spaight Donnell, Robert B. Gilliam,[note 1] Marmaduke Swain Robins,[note 2] William E. Mann[note 3]), Clerk, Assistant Clerk, Doorkeeper, and Assistant Doorkeeper. The following delegates to the House of Commons were elected by the voters of North Carolina to represent each county and district:[2][3][4][6]
County | Delegates per County |
Delegate |
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Alamance | 2 | Rufus Yancey McAden[7] |
Alamance | 2 | E. F. Watson |
Alexander | 1 | John M. Carson |
Anson | 2 | R. H. Burns |
Anson | 2 | Purdie Richardson |
Ashe | 1 | James M. Gentry |
Beaufort | 2 | Richard Spaight Donnell |
Beaufort | 2 | David Miller Carter[8] |
Bertie | 2 | Peyton T. Henry |
Bertie | 2 | James Bond |
Bladen | 1 | J.W. Russ |
Brunswick | 1 | Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr. |
Buncombe | 1 | John Burgin |
Burke | 1 | John Parks |
Cabarrus | 1 | William S. Harris |
Caldwell | 1 | Matthias A. Bernhardt |
Camden | 1 | John Forbes |
Carteret | 1 | Unknown/Vacant |
Caswell | 2 | Samuel S. Harrison |
Caswell | 2 | William Long |
Catawba | 1 | George S. Hooper[note 4] |
Catawba | 1 | Horace L. Robards[note 4] |
Catawba | 1 | W .P. Reinhardt[note 4] |
Chatham | 3 | Thomas B. Harris |
Chatham | 3 | William J. Headen |
Chatham | 3 | Maurice Q. Waddell |
Cherokee | 1 | James H. Bryson[note 5] |
Cherokee | 1 | John W. Fentress[note 5] |
Chowan | 1 | Lemuel C. Benbury |
Cleveland | 2 | John R. Logan |
Cleveland | 2 | David Beam |
Columbus | 1 | William M. Baldwin[note 6] |
Craven | 2 | J. B. J. Barrow[note 7] |
Craven | 2 | Thomas H. Gaskins[note 7] |
Craven | 2 | Richard A. Russell |
Cumberland | 3 | John McCormick |
Cumberland | 3 | Neill McKay |
Cumberland | 3 | Jesse G. Shepherd |
Currituck | 1 | Burwell M. Baxter |
Davidson | 2 | Robert L. Beall |
Davidson | 2 | Henry Walser |
Davie | 1 | Henry B. Howard |
Duplin | 2 | John D. Stanford |
Duplin | 2 | L. W. Hodges |
Edgecombe | 2 | Robert Bynum |
Edgecombe | 2 | David Cobb |
Forsyth | 2 | E. Kerner |
Forsyth | 2 | John P. Nissen |
Franklin | 1 | A. W. Pearce |
Gaston | 1 | A. W. Davenport |
Gates | 1 | William H. Manning |
Granville | 3 | Robert B. Gilliam[note 1] |
Granville | 3 | James S. Amis |
Granville | 3 | Eugene Grissom |
Greene | 1 | Henry H. Best |
Guilford | 3 | R. W. Glenn |
Guilford | 3 | M.S. Sherwood |
Guilford | 3 | William R. Smith |
Halifax | 2 | Archibald H. Davis |
Halifax | 2 | Henry Joyner |
Haywood | 1 | Samuel L. Love |
Henderson | 1 | Alexander Henry |
Hertford | 1 | John A. Vann |
Hyde | 1 | Edward L. Mann |
Iredell | 2 | Thomas A. Allison |
Iredell | 2 | John Young |
Jackson | 1 | Joseph Keener |
Johnston | 2 | W. H. Avera |
Johnston | 2 | Seth Woodall |
Jones | 1 | Anthony E. Rhodes |
Lenoir | 1 | William W. Dunn |
Lincoln | 1 | Ambrose White |
Macon | 1 | J. M. Lyle |
Madison | 1 | Jesse Wallen |
Martin | 1 | James Robinson |
McDowell | 1 | William F. Craig |
Mecklenburg | 2 | John L. Brown |
Mecklenburg | 2 | E. C. Grier |
Montgomery | 1 | Edmund G.L. Barringer |
Moore | 1 | Alexander Kelly |
Nash | 1 | Henry G. Williams |
New Hanover | 2 | Samuel J. Person |
New Hanover | 2 | John R. Hawes |
Northampton | 2 | Williamn W. Peebles |
Northampton | 2 | Samuel T. Stancil |
Onslow | 1 | James H. Foy |
Orange | 2 | William N. Patterson |
Orange | 2 | John Berry[9] |
Pasquotank | 1 | William E. Mann[note 3] |
Perquimans | 1 | James H. Riddick |
Person | 1 | M. D. C. Bumpass |
Pitt | 2 | Burton J. Albritton |
Pitt | 2 | Churchill Perkins |
Randolph | 2 | Jonathan Worth[note 8] |
Randolph | 2 | Isaac H. Foust[note 8] |
Randolph | 2 | Marmaduke Swain Robins[note 2] |
Richmond | 1 | Sanders M. Ingram |
Robeson | 2 | Neill McNeill |
Robeson | 2 | Murdock McRae |
Rockingham | 2 | W. J. Gilliam |
Rockingham | 2 | James I. Reynolds |
Rowan | 2 | Nathan Neely Fleming[note 9] |
Rowan | 2 | Francis Edwin Shober |
Rutherford | 2 | A. R. Bryan |
Rutherford | 2 | J. B. Carpenter |
Sampson | 2 | William Kirby |
Sampson | 2 | D. A. Bizzell[note 10] |
Sampson | 2 | Thomas H. Powell[note 10] |
Stanly | 1 | Lafayette Green |
Stokes | 1 | William H. Flynt |
Surry | 1 | Joseph Hollingsworth |
Tyrrell | 1 | Eli Spruill |
Union | 1 | Cyrus Q. Lemmond |
Wake | 3 | J.H. Alford |
Wake | 3 | William Laws |
Wake | 3 | Daniel Gould Fowle[note 11] |
Wake | 3 | Calvin J. Rogers[note 11] |
Warren | 2 | L. Henderson |
Warren | 2 | Thomas J. Judkins |
Washington | 1 | James H. Smith[note 12] |
Watauga | 1 | William Horton |
Wayne | 2 | Marcus K. Crawford |
Wayne | 2 | B.B. Rives |
Wilkes | 2 | W.W. Hampton |
Wilkes | 2 | E.M. Welborn |
Yadkin | 1 | Andrew C. Cowles |
Yancey | 1 | D.M. Young |
Senate members
The Senators elected a President, Clerk, Assistant Clerk, Doorkeeper, and Assistant Doorkeeper. The following Senators were elected by the voters of North Carolina to represent each county:[2][3][4][10]
District | Counties | Senator | Home County |
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1 | Pasquotank & Perquimans | William H. Bagley | Perquimans |
2 | Camden & Currituck | D. McD. Lindsay | Camden |
3 | Chowan & Gates | Mills H. Eure | Gates |
4 | Hyde & Tyrrell | Charles McCleese | Tyrrell |
5 | Northampton | W.S. Copeland | Northampton |
6 | Hertford | Joseph B. Slaughter | Hertford |
7 | Bertie | Thomas M. Garrett | Bertie |
8 | Martin & Washington | James G. Galloway | Washington |
9 | Halifax | M.L. Wiggins | Halifax |
10 | Edgecombe | Jesse H. Powell | Edgecombe |
11 | Pitt | Elias J. Blount | Pitt |
12 | Beaufort | Edward J. Warren | Beaufort |
13 | Craven | William B. Wadsworth | Craven |
14 | Carteret & Jones | M.F. Arendell | Carteret |
15 | Greene & Lenoir | Edward Patrick | Lenoir |
16 | New Hanover | Eli W. Hall | New Hanover |
17 | Duplin | James Dickson | Duplin |
18 | Onslow | A.J. Murrell | Onslow |
19 | Bladen, Brunswick, & Columbus | John W. Ellis | Columbus |
20 | Cumberland | W.B. Wright | Cumberland |
21 | Sampson | Thomas I. Faison | Sampson |
22 | Wayne | William K. Lane[note 13] | Wayne |
22 | Wayne | Benjamin Aycock[note 13] | Wayne |
23 | Johnston | C.B. Sanders | Johnston |
24 | Wake | John P.H. Russ | Wake |
25 | Nash | A.G. Taylor | Nash |
26 | Franklin | Washington Harris | Franklin |
27 | Warren | E. D. Drake[note 14] | Warren |
27 | Warren | Thomas J. Pritchard[note 14] | Warren |
28 | Granville | R.W. Lassiter | Granville |
29 | Person | James Holeman | Person |
30 | Orange | William A. Graham | Orange |
31 | Alamance & Randolph | Giles Mebane | Alamance |
32 | Chatham | William P. Taylor | Chatham |
33 | Montgomery & Moore | Calvin W. Wooley | Montgomery |
34 | Richmond, & Robeson | Giles Leitch | Robeson |
35 | Anson & Union | William C. Smith | Anson |
36 | Guilford | Peter Adams | Guilford |
37 | Caswell | Bedford Brown | Caswell |
38 | Rockingham | Francis L. Simpson | Rockingham |
39 | Mecklenburg | John A. Young | Mecklenburg |
40 | Cabarrus & Stanly | J.W. Smith | Stanly |
41 | Davie & Rowan | James Graham Ramsay | Rowan |
42 | Davidson | H. Adams | Davidson |
43 | Forsyth & Stokes | James E. Matthews | Stokes |
44 | Ashe, Surry, Watauga, & Yadkin | Isaac Jarratt | Ashe |
45 | Alexander, Iredell, Wilkes | Leander Q. Sharpe | Iredell |
46 | Burke, Caldwell, & McDowell | Samuel J. Neal | Burke |
47 | Catawba, Gaston, & Lincoln | James White | Lincoln |
48 | Cleveland & Rutherford | M.O. Dickson | Rutherford |
49 | Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, & Yancey | William Marcus Shipp[11] | Buncombe |
50 | Cherokee, Haywood, Jackson, & Macon | C.D. Smith | Macon |
Legislation
The Civil War was ongoing during the entire term of this assembly. The assembly passed public laws dealing with the following: the destroyed court house in Hertford County, funding of the state insane asylum (
Notes
- ^ a b c Robert B. Gilliam was elevated to the State Superior Court bench in 1863 and Richard Spaight Donnell was elected to replace him as Speaker of the House of Commons.
- ^ a b c Marmaduke Swain Robins was elected on November 24, 1863 when illness kept Richard Spaight Donnell from that session. See Cheney, page 356, footnote 580.
- ^ a b c William E. Mann served for a brief period as Speaker in the January adjourned session when Richard Donnell was ill.
- ^ a b c At some point George S. Hooper resigned and Horace L. Robards replaced him. W. P. Reinhardt attended the last special session. Robards may have joined the Confederate Army
- ^ a b James H. Bryson resigned his seat at some point. John W. Fentress was elected to replace him for the third session.
- ^ William M. Baldwin resigned his seat. No known replacement.
- ^ a b J. B. J. Barrow died before taking office and was replaced by Thomas H. Gaskins in the second special session.
- ^ a b Jonathan Worth resigned his position in the house after being elected as North Carolina State Treasurer. He was replaced by Isaac H. Foust.
- ^ Nathan Neely Fleming was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5–7, 1964).
- ^ a b D. A. Bizzell died in office and Thomas H. Powell was elected to replace him in the second session.
- ^ a b Daniel G. Fowle resigned his seat after being elected as Adjutant General of North Carolina. He was replaced by Calvin J. Rogers in the second special session.
- ^ James H. Smith did not take his seat until the first special session.
- ^ a b William K. Lane resigned and Benjamin Aycock took his place in the Extra Session in 1863.
- ^ a b E. D. Drake died in office and was replaced by Thomas J. Pritchard in the extra session in 1863.
References
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- ^ a b c Connor, Robert Diggs Wimberly, ed. (1913). A Manual of North Carolina (PDF). Raleigh, North Carolina: E. M. Uzzell & Company. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
- ^ a b c Wheeler, John Hill, ed. (1874). The Legislative Manual and Political Register of the State of North Carolina for the Year 1874. Raleigh, North Carolina: Josiah Turner, Jr.; State Printer and Binder. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
- ^ a b c Cheney, John L. Jr. (1974). North Carolina Government, 1585–1974. pp. 328-330.
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- ^ "Public Laws of the State of North Carolina Passed by the General Assembly of 1862-1863" (PDF). Carolana.com. 1863.