Charles Manly (May 13, 1795May 1, 1871) was a lawyer who served as the 31st
governor
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of the
U.S. state of
North Carolina
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from 1849 to 1851. He was the last member of the
Whig Party to hold the office. After one two-year term, Manly was defeated in the 1850 election by Democrat
David S. Reid, whom Manly had defeated in 1848. He was the last sitting governor of North Carolina to lose re-election until
Pat McCrory in 2016.
He was the brother of
Matthias Evans Manly. He was also an ancestor of
Alexander Manly, the African-American editor of the ''Wilmington Daily Record''.
[Zucchino 2020, p. 46.] He attended the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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.
Notes
References
*Zucchino, David (2020). ''Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy''. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 9780802128386.
External links
UNC Chapel HillNorth Carolina Historical Marker
1795 births
1871 deaths
Burials at City Cemetery (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Governors of North Carolina
North Carolina Whigs
Whig Party state governors of the United States
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