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North Carolina governors have been outstanding citizens, military men, and state leaders. North Carolina has had two types of governors: as a colony, Royal Governors appointed by the King of England, and as a state, elected governors. If you visit the Executive Mansion, you will notice that portraits of other governors also hang in the entrance hall in addition to the current governor and the previous 4 governors. The pictures on display are selected by the current governor. Which portraits are hanging in the entrance hall when you visited?
Included on the next page is a list of the Royal Governors and when they served, as well as the elected governors and the dates they served. You might have students review the lists and choose one Royal governor and one elected governor to research before your visit to the Executive Mansion. Make sure they include a picture with their research in case a portrait of the one they researched is hanging in the entrance! You might also have students research to see if any of the elected governors are from your county.
Our Governor’s Mansion is truly a North Carolina masterpiece! Look at the facts below to see just how authentic our Executive Mansion really is!
- The bricks along the walkway were molded by the North Carolina Prisoners. The Prison Warden, Col. William J. Hicks, oversaw the project and made sure the clay for each brick was from Wake County. One unique fact is that the prisoners who molded the bricks inscribed their names in them. You can still see many of the names today.
- The sandstone trim around the house came from our own Anson County.
- The marble steps on the North Side of the Executive Mansion came from Cherokee County.
- The oak and heart pine used to build the mansion came from across North Carolina.
Using these facts, you might have students locate the counties from which the different materials came. They could also shade in a map and make a key showing each material its county. Be creative as you help the students understand the resources we have across our state.
Royal Governors
George Burrington, 1731 - 1734 (previously governor under the Lords Proprietors)
Nathaniel Rice, 1734
Gabriel Johnston, 1734 - 1752
Nathaniel Rice, 1752 - 1753
Matthew Rowan, 1753 - 1754
Arthur Dobbs, 1753 - 1763
William Tryon, 1765 - 1771
James Hasell, 1771
Josiah Martin, 1771 - 1775
Governors of the State of North Carolina
Richard Caswell, 1776 - 1780 (first of two terms)
Abner Nash, 1780 - 1781
Thomas Burke, 1781 - 1782
Alexander Martin, 1782 - 1785 (first of two terms)
Richard Caswell, 1784 - 1787 (second of two terms)
Samuel Johnston, 1787 - 1789
Alexander Martin, 1789 - 1792 (second of two terms)
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., 1792 - 1795
Samuel Ashe, 1795 - 1798
William Richardson Davie, 1798 - 1799
Benjamin Williams, 1799 - 1802 (first of two terms)
James Turner, 1802 - 1805
Nathaniel Alexander, 1805 - 1807
Benjamin Williams, 1807 - 1808 (second of two terms)
David Stone, 1808 - 1810
Benjamin Smith, 1810 - 1811
William Hawkins, 1811 - 1814
William Miller, 1814 - 1817
John Branch, 1817 - 1820
Jesse Franklin, 1820 - 1821
Gabriel Holmes, 1821 - 1824
Hutchins Gordon Burton, 1824 - 1827
James Iredell, Jr., 1827 - 1828
John Owen, 1828 - 1830
Montford Stokes, 1830 - 1832
David Lowry Swain, 1832 - 1835
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., 1835 - 1836
Edward Bishop Dudley, 1836 – 1841
John Motley Morehead, 1841 - 1845
William Alexander Graham, 1845 - 1849
Charles Manly, 1849 - 1850
David Settle Reid, 1851 - 1854
Warren Winslow, 1854 - 1855
Thomas Bragg, 1855 - 1859
John Willis Ellis, 1859 - 1861
Henry Toole Clark, 1861 - 1862
Zebulon Baird Vance,1862-1865(1st of two terms)
William Woods Holden, 1865 (1st of two terms)
Jonathan Worth, 1865 - 1868
William Woods Holden, 1868 - 1870
Tod Robinson Caldwell, 1870 - 1874
Curtis Hooks Brogden, 1874 - 1877
Zebulon Baird Vance, 1877 - 1879 (second of two terms)
Thomas Jordan Jarvis, 1879 - 1885
Alfred Moore Scales, 1885 - 1889
Daniel Gould Fowle, 1889 - 1891
Thomas Michael Holt, 1891 - 1893
Elias Carr, 1893 - 1897
Daniel Lindsay Russell, 1897 - 1901
Charles Brantley Aycock, 1901 - 1905
Robert Broadnax Glenn, 1905 - 1909
William Walton Kitchin, 1909 - 1913
Locke Craig, 1913 - 1917
Thomas Walter Bickett, 1917 - 1921
Cameron Morrison, 1921 - 1925
Angus Wilton McLean, 1925 - 1929
Oliver Max Gardner, 1929 - 1933
John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus, 1933-1937
Clyde Roark Hoey, 1937 - 1941
Joseph Melville Broughton, 1941 - 1945
Robert Gregg Cherry, 1945 - 1949
William Kerr Scott, 1949 - 1953
William Bradley Umstead, 1953 - 1954
Luther Hartwell Hodges, 1954 - 1961
Terry Sanford, 1961 - 1965
Dan Killian Moore, 1965 - 1969
Robert Walter Scott, 1969 - 1973
James Eubert Holshouser, Jr., 1973 - 1977
James Baxter Hunt, Jr.,1977-1985 (1st of 2 terms)
James Grubbs Martin, 1985 - 1993
James Baxter Hunt, Jr., 1993 - 2001 (second of two terms)
Michael F. Easley, 2001 – 2009
Beverly Perdue, 2009-
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