North Carolina State Courts - North Carolina State Court Judges, Samuel Johnston, James Iredell, Albion W. Tourgee, North Carolina Supreme Court (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: North Carolina state court judges, Samuel Johnston, James Iredell, Albion W. Tourgee, North Carolina Supreme Court, William R. Cox, Alfred Moore, Willie Person Mangum, Daniel Lindsay Russell, David Stone, Albert Diaz, David Lowry Swain, James Crawford Biggs, James Iredell, Jr., George Edmund Badger, John Haywood, Francis D. Winston, L. Todd Burke, Catherine Eagles, Samuel Ashe, Archibald Murphey, Clinton A. Cilley, L. Richardson Preyer, Daniel Gould Fowle, Janice Cole, Lacy Thornburg, North Carolina Court of Appeals, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, Robert Strange, Thomas W. Ross, John J. Snow, Jr., James Braxton Craven, Jr., Anderson Mitchell, John Willis Ellis, Thomas Settle, Robert B. Gilliam, Samuel James Ervin III, Francis Locke, Floyd McKissick, John Kerr, Jr., Kristin Ruth, Charles R. Thomas, Charles M. Cooke, Wilson Warlick, John Williams, Rusty Duke, Jane P. Gray, Ripley Rand, James Dalrymple McIver, Hutchens v. Stout. Excerpt: Samuel Johnston (December 15, 1733 - August 17, 1816) was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Chowan County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in both the Continental Congress and the United States Senate, and was the sixth Governor of North Carolina. Johnston was born in Dundee, Scotland, but came to America when his father (Samuel, Sr.) moved to Onslow County, North Carolina in 1736. Samuel Sr. became surveyor-general of the colony where his brother, Gabriel Johnston, was Royal Governor. Young Samuel was educated in New England, then read law in Carolina. He moved to Chowan County and started his own plantation, known as Hayes near Edenton. Johnston was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Edenton. In 1759 he was elected to the colony's general assembly and would serve in that body until it was displaced in 1775 as a part of the Revolution. As a st...