Members of the North Carolina General Assembly

North Carolina General Assembly

The North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The General Assembly drafts and legislates the state laws of North Carolina, also known as the General Statutes...

 for the 1899–1900 session were elected in November 1898. The election saw the Democratic Party return to majority status in both houses, replacing the fusion

Electoral fusion

Electoral fusion is an arrangement where two or more political parties on a ballot list the same candidate, pooling the votes for that candidate...

 of Republicans and Populists. After this election, Democrats dominated state politics for the next seventy-plus years, in part due to the 1899–1900 legislature disfranchising African-Americans. http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/1898/1898.html

State House of Representatives

• Speaker
  Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives
  The Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is the presiding officer of one of the houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The Speaker is elected by the members of the house when they convene for their regular session in January of each odd-numbered year...
  
  : Henry G. Connor
  Henry G. Connor
  Henry Groves Connor was a North Carolina politician and jurist, and a United States federal judge.Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Connor read law to enter the bar in 1871. Connor was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He read law . He was in private practice in Wilson, North Carolina from...
  
   (D)

• Alamance
  Alamance County, North Carolina
  Alamance County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It coincides with the Burlington, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  : W. H. Carroll (D)
• Alexander: Alexander C. McIntosh (D)
• Alleghany: James M. Gambill (D)
• Anson: James A. Leak (D)
• Ashe: B. E. Reeves (D)
• Beaufort: B. B. Nicholson (D)
• Bertie: Francis D. Winston
  Francis D. Winston
  Francis Donnell Winston was a North Carolina politician and judge who served as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina from 1905 to 1909....
  
    (D)
• Bladen: George H. Currie (D)
• Brunswick: D. B. McNeill (D)
• Buncombe: Locke Craig  (D)
• Buncombe: J. C. Curtis (D)
• Burke: Julius H. Hoffman (D)
• Cabarrus: Luther T. Hartsell (D)
• Caldwell: Samuel L. Patterson
  Samuel L. Patterson
  Samuel Legerwood Patterson was a North Carolina politician and farmer.The son of Samuel F. Patterson and his wife, Phoebe Caroline, Patterson was born at Palmyra, the family plantation in Caldwell County, North Carolina....
  
    (D)
• Camden: John K. Abbott (D)
• Carteret: John B. Russell (D)
• Caswell: Charles J. Yarborough (R)
• Catawba: A. C. Boggs (D)
• Chatham: Los L. Wrenn (R)
• Chatham: J. A. Giles (R)
• Cherokee: W. E. Manney (D)
• Chowan: W. Dorsey Welch (D)
• Clay: George M. Fleming (D)
• Cleveland: Clyde R. Hoey
  Clyde R. Hoey
  Clyde Roark Hoey was a Democratic politician from North Carolina. He served in both houses of the state legislature and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. He was North Carolina's governor from 1937 to 1941. He entered the U.S...
  
    (D)
• Columbus: D. C. Allen (D)
• Craven: Isaac H. Smith (R)
• Cumberland: D. J. Ray (D)
• Cumberland: H. McD. Robinson (D)
• Curritick: Samuel M. Beasley (D)
• Dare: Charles T. Williams (D)
• Davidson: Charles M. Thompson (D)
• Davie: Gaston L. White (R)
• Duplin: James O. Carr (D)
• Durham: Howard A. Foushee (D)
• Edgecombe: Henry A. Gilliam (D)
• Forsyth: J. K. P. Carter (R)
• Forsyth: William A. Lowery (R)
• Franklin: P. A. Davis (D)
• Gaston: L. H. J. Hauser (D)
• Gates: John M. Trotman (D)
• Graham: O. P. Williams (R)
• Granville: C. W. Bryan (D)
• Granville: A. A. Lyon (D)
• Greene: John E. W. Sugg (D)
• Guilford: John C. Kennett (D)
• Guilford: John C. Bunch (D)
• Halifax: H. S. Harrison (D)
• Halifax: W. P. White (D)
• Harnett: Dan Hugh McLean (D)
• Haywood: Joseph S. Davis (D)
• Henderson: M. S. Justus (R)
• Hertford: Isaac F. Snipes (R)
• Hyde: Claude W. Davis (D)
• Iredell: John B. Holman (D)
• Iredell: Thomas J. Williams (D)
• Jackson: Walter E. Moore (D)
• Johnston: J. F. Brown (D)
• Johnston: D. G. Johnson (D)
• Jones: G. G. Noble (D)
• Lenoir: W. W. Carraway (D)
• Lincoln: John F. Rheinhart (D)
• McDowell: Edward J. Justice (D)
• Macon: J. Frank Ray (D)
• Madison: A. B. Bryant (R)
• Martin: Harry W. Stubbs (D)
• Mecklenburg: Heriot Clarkson  (D)
• Mecklenburg: J. E. Henderson (D)
• Mecklenburg: R. M. Ransom (D)
• Mitchell: J. R. Pritchard (R)
• Montgomery: W. A. Cochran (D)
• Moore: John L. Currie (D)
• Nash: Cicero T. Ellen (D)
• New Hanover: George Rountree (D)
• New Hanover: Martin S. Willard (D)
• Northampton: W. C. Coates (R)
• Onslow: Frank Thompson (D)
• Orange: Samuel M. Gattis (D)
• Pamlico: George Dees (D)
• Pasquotank: J. B. Leigh (D)
• Pender: Gibson James (D)
• Perquimans: F. H. Nicholson (R)
• Person: Charles A. Whitfield (D)
• Pitt: W. J. Nichols (D)
• Pitt: T. H. Barnhill (D)
• Polk: J. W. McFarland (R)
• Randolph: T. J. Redding (D)
• Randolph: J. M. Burrow (R)
• Richmond: Henry Clay Wall (D)
• Robeson: Gilbert B. Patterson (D)
• Robeson: James S. Oliver (D)
• Rockingham: J. H. Lane (D)
• Rockingham: J. R. Garrett (D)
• Rowan: Lee S. Overman  (D)
• Rowan: D. R. Julian (D)
• Rutherford: J. F. Alexander (D)
• Sampson: Robert M. Crumpler (P)
• Sampson: Cicero H. Johnson (P)
• Stanly: J. M. Brown (D)
• Stokes: Riley J. Petree (R)
• Surry: William W. Hampton (R)
• Swain: R. L. Leatherwood (D)
• Transylvania: George W. Wilson (D)
• Tyrrell: William Maitland (D)
• Union: R. L. Stevens (D)
• Vance: J. Y. Eaton (R)
• Wake: John D. Boushall (D)
• Wake: Gaston Powell (D)
• Wake: W. H. Holland (D)
• Warren: J. H. Wright (R)
• Washington: T. L. Tarkenton (P)
• Watauga: W. B. Council, Jr. (D)
• Wayne: William R. Allen (D)
• Wayne: J. M. Wood (D)
• Wilkes: E. B. Hendren (R)
• Wilkes: W. A. Tharpe (R)
• Wilson: Henry G. Connor (D)
• Yadkin: H. S. Williams (R)
• Yancey: W. M. Austin (D)

State Senate

• President: Lieutenant Governor
  Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
  The Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina is the second highest elected official in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the only elected official to have powers in both the legislative and executive branches of state government...
  
   Charles A. Reynolds
  Charles A. Reynolds
  Charles Albert Reynolds was a civil engineer and North Carolina Republican politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina from 1897 to 1901. Limited to one term in office by the state constitution of the time, Reynolds later ran unsuccessfully for the U.S...
  
   (R)
• President Pro Tempore
  President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate
  The President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate is the highest-ranking officer of one house of the North Carolina General Assembly. The President of the Senate is the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, but the President Pro-Tem actually holds most of the power and presides in the...
  
  : R. L. Smith or F. A. Whitaker (both D)

• District 1: George Cowper of Hertford; T. G. Skinner of Perquimans
• District 2: I. W. Miller of Pamlico; H. S. Ward of Washington
• District 3: W. E. Harris of Northampton
• District 4: Edward L. Travis of Halifax
• District 5: R. H. Speight of Edgecombe
• District 6: F. G. James of Pitt
• District 7: T. S. Collie Nash; R. A. P. Cooley of Nash
• District 8: James A. Bryan of Craven; John Q. Jackson of Lenoir
• District 9: Frank A. Daniels of Wayne; Isham F. Hill of Duplin
• District 10: W. J. Davis of Brunswick
• District 11: Thomas O. Fuller of Warren
• District 12: F. A. Whitaker of Wake (D)
• District 13: J. A. T. Jones of Johnston
• District 14: J. W. S. Robinson of Sampson; Frank P. Jones of Harnett
• District 15: Joseph A. Brown of Columbus; Stephen McIntyre of Robeson
• District 16: W. L. Williams of Cumberland
• District 17: Archibald A. Hicks of Granville
• District 18: Thomas M. Cheek of Orange; J. M. Satterfield of Caswell
• District 19: J. A. Goodwin of Chatham
• District 20: William Lindsay of Rockingham
• District 21: John N. Wilson of Guilford
• District 22: J. C. Black of Moore
• District 23: Thomas J. Jerome of Union; Charles Stanback of Montgomery
• District 24: R. L. Smith of Stanly (D)
• District 25: Frank I. Osborne
  Frank I. Osborne
  Frank I. Osborne was a North Carolina politician and attorney who served as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina , as a state senator, and as North Carolina Attorney General ....
  
   of Mecklenburg
• District 26: Robert B. Glenn of Forsyth (D); John C. Thomas of Davidson
• District 27: James A. Butler of Iredell; Frank C. Hairston of Davie
• District 28: J. C. Newsom of Stokes
• District 29: H. T. Campbell of Alexander
• District 30: William C. Fields of Ashe
• District 31: W. L. Lambert of Mitchell; G. G. Eaves of McDowell
• District 32: M. H. Justice of Rutherford; Oscar F. Mason of Gaston
• District 33: William J. Cocke of Buncombe; Thomas J. Murray of Madison
• District 34: J. A. Franks of Swain
• District 35: Joel L. Crisp of Graham

External links

• UNC Libraries Election of 1898