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This is a list of the colonial governors of North Carolina. ^ Appointed, but never took office.
There have been 69 governors of North Carolina, with six serving non-consecutive terms, totaling 75 terms. The current governor is Democrat Roy Cooper, who took office on January 1, 2017. Prior to declaring its independence, North Carolina was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
For additional records that document the Revolutionary War, consult the records of colonial governor Josiah Martin (1771-1775) and the first North Carolina State Governor, Richard Caswell (1776-1780, 1785-1787).
The governor of North Carolina from 1712 to 1776 was the representative of the British monarch in North Carolina. From 1729 to 1776, he was appointed by the monarch on the advice of the secretary of state for the Southern Department and the Board of Trade.
Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763) North Carolina’s proprietors envisioned elaborate courts, feudal manors, and silk production, but managing a colony was more complicated than they’d expected. In the colony’s first fifty years, North Carolina’s settlers faced corrupt officials, violent rebellion, Indian war, isolation, disease ...
History of the Colonial Governors' Papers The chief executives of North Carolina during the colonial era were normally the governors, appointed by the Lords Proprietors and later by the crown, and in their absence, the presidents of the governor's Council.
CHRONOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS. See also: History of Governorship in North Carolina, Places named for Governors. NCpedia has one and in many cases two articles for many of North Carolina's Governors.
Arthur Dobbs, sheriff (1720), Surveyor General (1730), and member of Parliament (1727-1730) in his native Ireland, became one of the five royal colonial governors of North Carolina in 1754. He was born on April 2, 1689 in the fishing village of Girvan in Ayrshire, Scotland, to Richard and Mary Stewart Dobbs.
The series includes documents and materials from throughout the country and from several European repositories covering the earliest days of North Carolina’s settlement by Europeans through the ratification of the United States Constitution.
This project collects North Carolina governors prior to declaring independence in 1776. Governors of North Carolina after 1776 should be added to North Carolina Governors . Governors of Roanoke and Raleigh