Duplin County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census,the population was 48,715. Its county seat is Kenansville.
Cary is a town in Wake,Chatham,and Durham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is part of the Raleigh-Cary,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2020 census,its population was 174,721,making it the seventh-most populous municipality in North Carolina,and the 148th-most populous in the United States. In 2023,the town's population had increased to 180,010.
William Walton Kitchin was an American attorney and the 52nd governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1909 to 1913.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis was the 44th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1879 to 1885. Jarvis later served as a U.S. Senator from 1894 to 1895,and helped establish East Carolina Teachers Training School,now known as East Carolina University,in 1907.
William Woods Holden was an American politician who served as the 38th and 40th governor of North Carolina. He was appointed by President Andrew Johnson in 1865 for a brief term and then elected in 1868. He served until 1871 and was the leader of the state's Republican Party during the Reconstruction Era.
Benjamin Franklin Grady was a teacher,US Congressman and author from North Carolina. He represented the state's 3rd district in the U.S. Congress from 1891 to 1895.
James Gillespie was an American lawyer,politician,and Revolutionary War veteran from North Carolina. He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1793 and died in office on January 10,1805. Prior to serving in the U.S. Congress,Gillespie was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons,the North Carolina Senate,the North Carolina Council of State,and held various other positions in the state government. An ardent Anti-Federalist,he voted twice against the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Edwin Godwin Reade was a U.S. congressman from North Carolina between 1855 and 1857. He later served in the Confederate Senate during the American Civil War. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Interstate 40 (I-40) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that travels 2,556.61 miles (4,114.46 km) from Barstow,California,to Wilmington,North Carolina. In North Carolina,I-40 travels 420.21 miles (676.26 km) across the entirety of the state from the Tennessee state line along the Pigeon River Gorge to U.S. Highway 117 (US 117) and North Carolina Highway 132 (NC 132) in Wilmington. I-40 is the longest Interstate Highway in North Carolina and is the only Interstate to completely span the state from west to east.
Josiah Turner,Jr. was an American lawyer,politician and newspaper editor from North Carolina.
Thomas Fentress Toon was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
The 3rd North Carolina (Volunteer) Mounted Infantry was an all-volunteer mounted infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was predominantly composed of Union Loyalists from North Carolina,but also included volunteers from Tennessee and several other states.
The 2012 North Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2012,concurrently with the 2012 United States presidential election,U.S. House election,statewide judicial election,Council of State election and various local elections.
James Kenan was a member of the North Carolina Senate,serving from 1777 to 1793. A senior officer of militia;he also commanded a North Carolina regiment,and temporarily a militia district (brigade),in the Southern Theater of the American Revolutionary War.
Thomas Stephen Kenan was an American lawyer,Confederate soldier and politician. He served as the Attorney General of North Carolina in 1877–1885.
North Carolina Highway 403 (NC 403) is a primary state highway located in U.S. State of North Carolina. The highway travels through Sampson,Duplin,and Wayne Counties between its southern terminus at U.S. Route 701 Business in Clinton and NC 55 in Williams. Between its termini,NC 403 connects to Interstate 40 (I-40) and Faison. The highway is primarily rural and predominantly travels through rural forests and farmlands. While signed in a north-south direction,NC 403 physically travels in a northeast-southwest direction along the duration of its route.
The 43rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment,also known as the 43rd Regiment,North Carolina State Troops or 43rd N.C.S.T.,was organized at Camp Mangum,about four miles west of Raleigh,North Carolina,on March 18,1862.
The 20th North Carolina Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Confederate States Army. It was part of the Army of Northern Virginia for most of the war.
Betty Landon Ray McCain was an American politician and political strategist. She was the North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources during Governor Jim Hunt's administration and was the first woman to chair the North Carolina Democratic Party. She was also the first woman named to the state's Advisory Budget Committee. As Secretary of Cultural Resources,McCain opened the North Carolina Museum of History,rededicated USS North Carolina (BB-55),and secured funding for the excavation of the Queen Anne's Revenge. She received the North Carolina Award in 2009 and was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame in 2010.
Cameron Farquhar McRae was an Episcopalian minister who served as the rector of different parishes in North Carolina,Massachusetts,Pennsylvania,Georgia,and Maryland.
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