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Elias Carr (February 25, 1839 – July 22, 1900) was an American planter, lawyer, and politician who served as the 48th governor of the
Carr became prominent as head of the state Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union (1889–1892). He was part of a more moderate or conservative faction of the Alliance that opposed splitting from Democrats to form a third party. In 1892, he defeated incumbent Gov. Thomas Michael Holt for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.History of North Carolina: North Carolina since 1860
pp. 235 and 237. Carr then won the three-way race over the Republican candidate, Judge David M. Furches, and the Populist Party (United States), Populist candidate, Dr. Wyatt P. Exum. Carr did not win an absolute majority of the vote, perhaps foreshadowing the 1894 election, in which Democrats lost control of the legislature to an electoral fusion of Populists and Republicans, and the 1896 election, in which Democrats lost the governor's race for the first time since 1872. During his term in office, Carr promoted better school facilities and regulation of railroads. After his governorship, he returned to Bracebridge Hall where he died of a 'thyroid condition' in July 1900. He is buried in the Carr Cemetery at Bracebridge Hall.
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U.S. state
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of North Carolina
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from 1893 to 1897.
Biography
Carr was born inEdgecombe County, North Carolina
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on February 25, 1839, to Jonas Johnston Carr and Elizabeth Jane Hilliard. He was a cousin of the industrialist Julian Carr and an uncle of the anti-suffragist Mary Hilliard Hinton. Carr's great-grandfather, Colonel Jonas Johnston, fought in the , from the North Caro ...
American Revolutionary War
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. Carr grew up at Bracebridge Hall (Tarboro, North Carolina), Bracebridge Hall, his family's plantation. He was raised in the Episcopal Church (USA), Episcopal faith.
He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1855–1859) and also attained a law degree from the University of Virginia and then returned to Bracebridge Hall. He married Eleanor Kearny Carr, Eleanor Kearny, the youngest daughter of William Kinchen Kearny and Benjamin Hardee James Marie Alston Kearny, in 1860 and was the father of six children: Dr. William Kearny Carr, John Buxton Carr, Mary Elizabeth Carr, Elias Carr, Eleanor Kearny Carr, and Annie Bruce Carr. Carr was a member of the board of directors of Rocky Mount Mills, trustee of N.C. College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (today known as North Carolina State University), commissioner of the N.C. Geological Survey, agriculturist, and businessman. He was an active member of the Sons of the American Revolution and chartered his chapter in North Carolina.
Carr became prominent as head of the state Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union (1889–1892). He was part of a more moderate or conservative faction of the Alliance that opposed splitting from Democrats to form a third party. In 1892, he defeated incumbent Gov. Thomas Michael Holt for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.pp. 235 and 237.
References
The Elias Carr Papers
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