North Carolina State Senate




North Carolina in the 1800s

North Carolina State Senate
1840-1841
This General Assembly met from November 16, 1840 to January 12, 1841. Although it was created in 1838, according to most sources, Cherokee County began sending its delegate to the NC General Assembly during the 1840 session. The Author has found no other county giving up a delegate in this session, so Cherokee County may not have actually been authorized to send a delegate during this session - or - the NC General Assembly proceeded with 121 delegates During the 1841 session, the NC Legislature created Caldwell County, Cleveland County, and Stanly County. Caldwell County began sending delegates to the NC General Assembly in 1842. Cleveland County and Stanly County began sending delegates to the NC General Assembly in 1844.
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	Herod Faison
6	Hertford	B.T. Spiers
7	Bertie	Lewis Bond
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	James B. Whitfield (Lenoir)
18	Pitt	Alfred Moye
19	Beaufort & Hyde	William Selby (Hyde)
20	Carteret & Jones	Isaac Hellen (Carteret)
21	Craven	Thomas J. Pasteur
22	Chatham	William Albright
23	Granville	William A. Johnson
24	Person	John W. Williams
25	Cumberland	Archibald McDearmid
26	Sampson	Dickson Sloan
27	New Hanover	William S. Larkins
28	Duplin	James K. Hill
29	Onslow	John B. Pollock
30	Bladen, Brunswick, & Columbus	Robert Melvin (Bladen)
31	Richmond & Robeson	Alfred Dockery (Richmond)
32	Anson	Absalom Myers
33	Cabarrus	Christopher Melchor
34	Montgomery & Moore	John H. Montgomery (Moore)
35	Caswell	James Kerr
36	Rockingham	David S. Reid
37	Orange	Willie P. Mangum
38	Randolph	Jonathan Worth
39	Guilford	James T. Morehead
40	Stokes	Matthew R. Moore
41	Rowan	Samuel Ribelin
42	Davidson	Alfred Hargrave
43	Surry	R.C. Puryear
44	Ashe & Wilkes	Anderson Mitchell (Wilkes) (Note 1)
45	Burke & Yancey	Burgess Sidney Gaither (Burke)
46	Lincoln	Thomas Ward
47	Iredell	R.H. Parks
48	Rutherford	John G. Bynum
49	Buncombe, Cherokee, Haywood, & Macon	Thomas Lanier Clingman (Buncombe)
50	Mecklenburg	James T.R. Orr
* Andrew Joyner was elected Speaker of the Senate. Thomas G. Stone was elected Clerk.
Note 1 - The 1913 North Carolina Manual states that Anderson Mitchell was from Ashe County in 1840. However, wikipedia.com, states that Anderson Mitchell moved to Wilkes County in 1831 and resided there for the remainder of his life.

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