Governor of the State of North Carolina




William Walton Kitchin
46th Governor of the State of North Carolina - 1909 to 1913

Date Born: October 9, 1866				Date Died: November 9, 1924
Place Born: Halifax County, NC				Place Buried: Baptist Cemetery in Scotland Neck, NC
Residence: Roxboro, NC and Raleigh, NC				Occupation: Lawyer

William Walton Kitchin (9 October 1866 -- 9 November 1924) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1909 to 1913. A lawyer, he also ran unsuccessfully the North Carolina Senate and then served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1909. Limited to one term as governor by the state constitution of the time, Kitchin ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 1912. [1] W.W. Kitchin was the son of William H. Kitchin, the brother of Claude Kitchin and the uncle of Alvin Paul Kitchin, each of whom served in the U.S. Congress. Kitchin and his wife, Sue Satterfield, had six children: Sue Arrington (22 Oct. 1893 - 5 Aug. 1954), William Walton (Sept. 1895 - Sept. 1905), Anne Maria (23 Oct. 1897 - 16 Jan. 1995), Elizabeth Gertrude (19 Dec. 1899 - Sept. 1979), Clement Satterfield, and Musette Satterfield. W.W. Kitchin's children related stories of how kind he was to the hired help at the Governor's Mansion, going so far as to offer them time off one Christmas. The children also enjoyed roller skating through the Governor's Mansion. Kitchin, William Walton, (son of William Hodges Kitchin, brother of Claude Kitchin, and uncle of A. Paul Kitchin), a Representative from North Carolina; born near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, NC, October 9, 1866; attended private schools and Vine Hill Academy; was graduated from Wake Forest College, North Carolina, in 1884; edited the Scotland Neck Democrat in 1885; studied law in Scotland Neck and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Roxboro, N.C., in 1889; chairman of the county executive committee in 1890; nominee of his party for the State senate in 1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until January 11, 1909, when he resigned; Governor of North Carolina 1909-1913; resumed the practice of law in Raleigh, NC; died in Scotland Neck, N.C., November 9, 1924; interment in the Baptist Cemetery.

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