Montfort Stokes
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United States Senator from North Carolina |
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In office December 4, 1816 – March 4, 1823 |
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| Preceded by | James Turner |
| Succeeded by | John Branch |
| 25th Governor of North Carolina | |
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In office December 18, 1830 – December 6, 1832 |
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| Preceded by | John Owen |
| Succeeded by | David Lowry Swain |
| Member of the North Carolina House of Commons | |
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In office 1829–1830 |
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| Member of the North Carolina Senate | |
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In office 1826–1827 |
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March 12, 1762 Lunenburg County, Virginia |
| Died | November 4, 1842 (aged 80) Fort Gibson, Indian Territory |
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Democratic-Republican Democratic |
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Montfort Stokes (March 12, 1762 – November 4, 1842) was an American Democratic (originally Democratic-Republican) politician who served as U.S. Senator from 1816 to 1823, and the 25th Governor of North Carolina from 1830 to 1832.
Born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, Stokes was the youngest of the eleven children of David Stokes, a military officer and judge. At the age of 13, he enlisted in the United States Merchant Marine. During the American Revolutionary War, Stokes was captured by the British and confined for seven months on the British prison ship Jersey in New York Harbor. He later held the rank of major general in the state militia from 1804 to 1816.
After the Revolutionary War, Stokes settled in Salisbury, North Carolina, farmed, served as clerk of court, and studied law. There, he first met Andrew Jackson, a fellow lawyer. He served as assistant clerk in the North Carolina Senate from 1786 to 1780, and as clerk from 1799 to 1816, until he was elected to the United States Senate following the resignation of James Turner. He served the remaining few months of Turner's term and then a full term in the Senate, but was defeated for re-election by the legislature in 1823. He had previously been elected to the Senate in 1804, but had declined the seat. During his Senate term Stokes changed his residency from Salisbury to Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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