North Carolina State Senate




North Carolina in the 1800s

North Carolina State Senate
1838-1839
This General Assembly met from November 19, 1838 to January 8, 1839. During the 1838 session, the NC Legislature created Henderson County, but it was not until 1844 that Henderson County began sending delegates to the General Assembly. During the 1839 session, the NC Legislature created Cherokee County, and they sent their first delegates to the 1840 General Assembly.
District	County/Counties	Delegate (County From)
1	Pasquotank & Persquimans	William B. Shepard (Pasquotank)
2	Camden & Currituck	Caleb Etheridge (Currituck)
3	Chowan & Gates	Rufus K. Speed (Chowan)
4	Tyrrell & Washington	Hezekiah G. Spruill (Tyrrell)
5	Northampton	William Moody
6	Hertford	Thomas B. Sharp
7	Bertie	William W. Cherry
8	Martin	Jesse Cooper
9	Halifax	Andrew Joyner*
10	Nash	Samuel L. Arrington
11	Wake	Samuel Whitaker
12	Franklin	John D. Hawkins
13	Johnston	Josiah Houlder
14	Warren	Weldon Nathaniel Edwards
15	Edgecombe	Louis D. Wilson
16	Wayne	John Exum
17	Greene & Lenoir	William D. Moseley (Lenoir) (Note 1) James Harper (Greene) (Note 1)
18	Pitt	Alfred Moye
19	Beaufort & Hyde	James O'Kelly Williams (Beaufort)
20	Carteret & Jones	Enoch Foy (Jones)
21	Craven	Samuel J. Biddle
22	Chatham	William Albright
23	Granville	John C. Taylor
24	Person	John W. Williams
25	Cumberland	Archibald McDearmid
26	Sampson	Thomas Bunting
27	New Hanover	Charles Henry
28	Duplin	James K. Hill
29	Onslow	Joshua Foy
30	Bladen, Brunswick, & Columbus	Robert Melvin (Bladen)
31	Richmond & Robeson	Alfred Dockery (Richmond)
32	Anson	J. White
33	Cabarrus	Christopher Melchor
34	Montgomery & Moore	John H. Montgomery (Moore)
35	Caswell	James Kerr
36	Rockingham	David S. Reid
37	Orange	Joseph Allison
38	Randolph	Jonathan Redding
39	Guilford	James T. Morehead
40	Stokes	Matthew R. Moore
41	Rowan	Samuel Ribelin
42	Davidson	William R. Holt
43	Surry	Meshack Franklin
44	Ashe & Wilkes	Edmund Jones (Wilkes)
45	Burke & Yancey	Thomas Baker (Yancey)
46	Lincoln	Michael Reinhardt
47	Iredell	George F. Davidson
48	Rutherford	Joseph M.D. Carson
49	Buncombe, Haywood, & Macon	Hodge Rabourne (Haywood)
50	Mecklenburg	Stephen Fox
* Andrew Joyner was elected Speaker of the Senate. Thomas G. Stone was elected as Clerk.
Note 1 - The first North Carolina Manual (1874) identifies William D. Moseley as the Senator for District 17. The 1913 North Carolina Manual identifies James Harper as the Senator for District 17. Thanks to Mr. Josh Myers of Greensboro for digging out the correct name - James Harper - from a Sept 15, 1838 article in the Tarboro Press, provided in May of 2018.

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