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Alfred Scales

Alfred Moore Scales
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45th Governor of North Carolina
In office
January 21, 1885 – January 17, 1889
Lieutenant Charles M. Stedman
Preceded by Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Succeeded by Daniel Gould Fowle
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 5th district
In office
March 4, 1875 – December 30, 1884
Preceded by James M. Leach
Succeeded by James W. Reid
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859
Preceded by Richard C. Puryear
Succeeded by James M. Leach
Member of the North Carolina State Legislature
In office
1865
Personal details
Born (1827-11-26)November 26, 1827
Reidsville, North Carolina
Died February 9, 1892(1892-02-09) (aged 64)
Greensboro, North Carolina
Resting place Greenhill Cemetery
Greensboro, North Carolina
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Kate B. Henderson Scales
Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Profession Lawyer
Educator
Military service
Allegiance  United States of America
 Confederate States of America
Service/branch  Confederate States Army
Years of service 1861–65
Rank Confederate States of America General.png Brigadier General
Battles/wars

American Civil War


American Civil War

Alfred Moore Scales (November 26, 1827 – February 9, 1892) was a North Carolina state legislator, Confederate general in the American Civil War and the 45th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1885 to 1889, and Congressman.

Scales was born at Reidsville, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. He lived on Mulberry Island Plantation. After attending a Presbyterian school, the Caldwell institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Scales entered teaching for a time. Later, he studied law with Judge William H. Battle and Judge Settle and then opened a law office in Madison, North Carolina. While at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.

Scales was elected county solicitor in 1852. He was elected four times to the North Carolina state legislature and served as chairman of the Finance Committee. In 1854 he ran a close but unsuccessful race as the Democratic candidate for United States Congress in a Whig district. In 1857 he was elected to Congress but was defeated for re-election two years later. From 1858 until the spring of 1861 he held the office of clerk and master of the court of equity of Rockingham County. In 1860 he was an elector for the Breckinridge ticket and subsequently involved in the debate over North Carolina's secession.


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