Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr.
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member showbizkid
N 35° 06.490 W 077° 02.288
18S E 314248 N 3886939
This is an old Historical Commission plaque which is installed on a boulder on the lawn of the Craven County Courthouse. Dobbs was a state politician and U.S. Congressman and Governor of North Carolina.
Waymark Code: WMJCY
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 07/27/2006
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GeoGordie
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The plaque reads:

RICHARD DOBBS SPAIGHT
THE YOUNGER
BORN 1790 - DIED 1850
GRADUATE AND FOR TWENTY-NINE YEARS A TRUSTEE
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. MEMBER
OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF COMMONS
FOR ONE TERM, AND OF THE STATE SENATE
FOR FOURTEEN TERMS, MEMBER OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, GRAND
MASTER OF THE MASONIC GRAND LODGE OF NORTH
CAROLINA FOR TWO TERMS, MEMBER OF THE STATE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1835, AND THE
LAST GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA ELECTED
BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ERECTED 1923 BY
THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
RICHARD DOBBS SPAIGHT CHAPTER OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
COUNTY OF CRAVEN AND CITY OF NEW BERN

Marker Name: Richard Dobbs Spaight

Marker Type: City

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