North Carolina General Assembly of 1835

The North Carolina General Assembly of 1835 met in Raleigh from November 16, 1835 to December 22, 1835. The assembly consisted of the 137 members of the North Carolina House of Commons and 65 senators of North Carolina Senate elected by the voters in August 1835. This was the last assembly elected before the amendments to the Constitution of North Carolina from the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835 took effect. Thus, the House of Commons included representatives from towns (also called Districts) and the number of members of the house was greater than 120. William H. Haywood, Jr was elected speaker of the House of Commons and Charles Manley was elected clerk. William D. Mosely was elected President of the Senate and William J. Cowan was elected Clerk. Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. was elected the Governor by the assembly and served from December 10, 1835 to December 31, 1836. He was the last governor of North Carolina to be elected by the General Assembly.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

60th North Carolina General Assembly (1835)
1834-1835 1836–1837
Overview
Legislative bodyNorth Carolina General Assembly
JurisdictionNorth Carolina, United States
Meeting placeRaleigh
Term1835
Senate
Members65 Senators (one per county)
SpeakerWilliam D. Moseley
ClerkWilliam J. Cowan
Assistant ClerkDaniel Coleman
DoorkeeperThomas B. Wheel
Assistant DoorkeeperGreen Hill
House of Commons
Members137 Delegates
SpeakerWilliam H. Haywood, Jr
ClerkCharles Manley
Assistant ClerkEdmund B. Freeman
DoorkeeperIsaac Truitt
Assistant DoorkeeperJohn Cooper
Sessions
1stNovember 16, 1835 – December 22, 1835

Councilors of State

The General Assembly elected the following individuals to the Council of State on December 4, 1835:[6]

  • Allen Rogers, Wake County (elected President of the Council)
  • Thomas B. Haywood (elected Secretary of the Council)
  • William Shepperd Ashe, New Hanover County
  • Peter H. Dillard, Rockingham County
  • Louis D. Henry, Cumberland County[note 1]
  • Henry Skinner, Perquimans County
  • Daniel Turner, Warren County[8]
  • George Williamson, Caswell County

William Hill continued to serve as the North Carolina Secretary of State[9] Samuel F. Patterson was elected by the assembly to serve as North Carolina State Treasurer in 1835. John Reeves Jones Daniel was elected to serve as North Carolina Attorney General.

Membership of the assembly

House of Commons members

Speaker of the House of Commons William Henry Haywood, Jr
Rep. William Alexander Graham
Rep. Owen Rand Kenan
Rep. Kenneth Rayner
Edward Bishop Dudley

There were 137 delegates in the House of Commons, two from each of the 65 counties and one from each of the seven towns/Districts. They elected William H. Haywood, Jr. from Wake County as their Speaker and Charles Manly from Wake County as their Clerk.[3][1][2][6]

County/TownDelegate
AnsonJeremiah Benton
AnsonJohn A. McRae
AsheJonathan Horton
AsheTaliaferro Witcher
BeaufortHenry S. Clark
BeaufortS. Smallwood
BertieJohn F. Lee
BertieThomas H. Speller
BladenB. Fitzrandolph
BladenRobert Lyon
BrunswickAbram Baker
BrunswickWilliam R. Hall
BuncombeNathaniel Harrison
BuncombeJoseph Pickett
BurkeEdward J. Erwin
BurkeJames H. Perkins
CabarrusGeorge Barnhardt
CabarrusLevi Hope
CamdenJ.S. Burgess
CamdenJames N. McPherson
CarteretJames W. Hunt
CarteretThomas Marshall
CaswellStephen Dodson
CaswellLittleton A. Gwinn
ChathamR.C. Cotten
ChathamJohn S. Guthrie
ChowanWilliam Beyrum
ChowanThomas S. Hoskins
Columbus Thomas Frink
Columbus Marmaduke Powell
CravenJohn M. Bryan
CravenAbner Neale
CumberlandDillon Jordan
CumberlandDavid McNeill
CurrituckJoshua Harrison
CurrituckAlfred Perkins
DavidsonCharles Brummell
DavidsonGeorge Smith
DuplinJames K. Hill
DuplinOwen Rand Kenan
EdgecombeS. DeBerry
EdgecombeJoseph J. Pipkin
FranklinThomas Howerton
FranklinSimon G. Jeffreys
GatesLemuel Riddick
GatesWhitmell Stallings
GranvilleCharles R. Eaton
GranvilleElijah Hester
GreeneJames Harper
GreeneThomas Hooker
GuilfordRalph Gorrell[10]
GuilfordJesse H. Lindsay
HalifaxSterling H. Gee
HalifaxWilliam M. West
HaywoodJohn L. Smith
HaywoodJoseph H. Walker
HertfordR.C. Borland
HertfordKenneth Rayner
HydeR.M.G. Moore
HydeJohn L. Swindell
IredellJames A. King
IredellSolomon Lowdermilk
JohnstonJames Tomlinson
JohnstonKedar Whitley
JonesJohn H. Hammond
JonesJames W. Howard
LenoirWindall Davis
LenoirCouncil Wooten
LincolnHenry Cansler
LincolnMichael Hoke
MaconJames W. Gwinn
MaconJacob Siler
MartinRaleigh Roebuck
MartinAlfred M. Slade[11]
MecklenburgJ.A. Dunn
MecklenburgJames M. Hutchison
MontgomeryWilliam Harris
MontgomeryPeter R. Lilley
MooreJohn O. Kelly
MooreJohn A.D. McNeill
NashSamuel Brown
NashFord Taylor
New HanoverCharles Henry
New HanoverJohn R. Walker
NorthamptonWilliam E. Crump
NorthamptonRoderick B. Gary
OnslowDaniel S. Sanders
OnslowDaniel Thompson
OrangeJames Forest
OrangeJohn Stockard
PasquotankThomas Bell
PasquotankJohn B. Muse
PerquimansJosiah T. Granberry
PerquimansJonathan H. Jacocks
PersonRobert Jones
PersonJames M. Williamson
PittJ.L. Foreman
PittMacon Moye
Randolph William B. Lane
Randolph Zebedee Rush
RichmondJohn R. Buie
RichmondGeorge Thomas
RobesonOliver K. Tuton
RobesonAlexander Watson
RockinghamBlake W. Brasswell
RockinghamPhilip Irion
RowanJohn Clements
RowanJesse W. Wharton
RutherfordJohn H. Bedford
RutherfordJoseph M.D. Carson
SampsonIsaac W. Lane
SampsonDickson Sloan
StokesCaleb H. Matthews
StokesJohn F. Poindexter
SurryThomas L. Clingman
SurryMordecai Fleming
TyrrellThomas Hassell
TyrrellCharles McCleese
WakeWilliam Henry Haywood, Jr.
WakeAllen Rogers
Warren John H. Hawkins
Warren Thomas I. Judkins
WashingtonA. Davenport
WashingtonUriah H. Swanner
WayneCalvin Coor
WayneGiles Smith
WilkesWilliam Horton
WilkesBenjamin F. Martin
YanceySamuel Byrd
YanceyMay Jervis
Town of EdentonHugh W. Collins
Town of FayettevilleThomas L. Hybart
Town of HalifaxRobert C. Bond
Town of HillsboroughWilliam Alexander Graham
Town of New BernMatthias Evans Manly
Town of SalisburyWilliam Chambers
Town of WilmingtonEdward Bishop Dudley[note 2][12]

Senate members

Sen. William Dunn Moseley

There were 65 Senators in the Senate, one from each of the 65 counties in North Carolina.[4][1][2]

County/TownSenator
AnsonAlexander Little
AsheJohn Gambill
BeaufortJames O'Kelly Williams
BertieAlexander W. Mebane
BladenGeorge Cromartie
BrunswickFrederick Jones Hill[13]
BuncombeHodge Rabun
BurkePeter Ballew
CabarrusDavid Long
CamdenThomas Tillett
CarteretJames West Bryan[14]
CaswellJames Kerr
ChathamHugh McQueen
ChowanWilliam Bullock
ColumbusCaleb Stephens
CravenThomas J. Pasteur
CumberlandDuncan McCormick
CurrituckDaniel Lindsay, Jr.
DavidsonJohn A. Hogan
DuplinJohn E. Hussey
EdgecombeBenjamin Sharpe
FranklinHenry G. Williams
GatesWilliam W. Cowper
GranvilleJames Wyche
GreeneWyatt Moye
GuilfordJames T. Morehead
HalifaxAndrew Joyner[15]
HaywoodNinian Edmonston
HertfordJohn Vann
HydeWilliam Selby
IredellJohn M. Young
JohnstonJosiah Houlder
JonesJames Harrison
LenoirWilliam Dunn Moseley[16]
LincolnJohn B. Harry
MaconBenjamin S. Brittain
MartinJesse Cooper
MecklenburgStephen Fox
MontgomeryReuben Kendall
MooreCornelius Dowd
Nash Samuel L. Arrington
New HanoverLouis H. Marsteller
NorthamptonWilliam Moody
OnslowDavid W. Simmons
OrangeJoseph Allison
PasquotankFrederick Whitehurst
PerquimansJesse Wilson
PersonIsham Edwards
PittAlfred Moye
RandolphAlfred Staley
RichmondAlexander Martin
RobesonMalcolm Patterson
Rockingham David S. Reid
RowanThomas Gilchrist Polk[17]
RutherfordAlanson W. Moore
SampsonEdward C. Gavin
StokesMatthew R. Moore
SurryHarrison M. Waugh
Tyrrell George H. Alexander
WakeSamuel Whitaker
WarrenWeldon Nathaniel Edwards[18]
WashingtonJohn B. Beasley
WayneJohn Exum
WilkesJames Wellborn/Welborn[19]
YanceyThomas Baker

Acts passed by the assembly

The following acts were passed by this General Assembly:[20]

  • Implementation of the new election procedures enacted in the constitution convention, including duties of the sheriffs
  • Suppression of the vice of gambling in the state
  • Disposition of un-surveyed Cherokee lands in Haywood and Macon Counties
  • Various acts dealing with Banks, the poor, hawking and peddling, county registers, and veteran seamen
  • Completion of the construction of the state capital
  • Chartering of railroad companies in the state
  • Regulation of slavery
  • Regulation of the state militia
  • Incorporation of schools

See also

Notes

  1. Louis D. Henry resigned on July 16, 1836
  2. Edward Bishop Dudley is referred to as Edward M. Dudley in some references.

References

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