North Carolina General Assembly of 1899–1900

94th North Carolina General Assembly (1899–1900)
94th North Carolina General Assembly (1899–1900)
	North Carolina State Capitol
Overview
Legislative body	North Carolina General Assembly
Jurisdiction	North Carolina, United States
Meeting place	North Carolina State Capitol
Term	1899-1900
North Carolina Senate
Members	49 Senators
President of the Senate	Charles A. Reynolds (Rep)
President pro tempore	R. L. Smith (Dem); F. A. Whitaker (Dem)
Party control	Democratic Party
North Carolina House of Representatives
Members	118 Representatives
Speaker of the House	Henry G. Connor
Party control	Democratic Party

Members of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1899–1900 were elected in November 1898. The election saw the Democratic Party return to majority status in both houses, replacing the fusion 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.^[2]^[3] The election followed the 1898 Wilmington massacre.

House of Representatives

House leadership

North Carolina House officers
Position	Name	Party
Speaker	Henry G. Connor	Democratic

House members

The 118 House of Representative members and their party affiliation are listed below:^[3]^[4]

Alamance: W. H. Carroll (Dem)
Alexander: Alexander C. McIntosh (Dem)
Alleghany: James M. Gambill (Dem)
Anson: James A. Leak (Dem)
Ashe: B. E. Reeves (Dem)
Beaufort: B. B. Nicholson (Dem)
Bertie: Francis D. Winston (Dem)
Bladen: George H. Currie (Dem)
Brunswick: D. B. McNeill (Dem)
Buncombe: Locke Craig (Dem)
Buncombe: J. C. Curtis (Dem)
Burke: Julius H. Hoffman (Dem)
Cabarrus: Luther T. Hartsell (Dem)
Caldwell: Samuel L. Patterson (Dem)
Camden: John K. Abbott (Dem)
Carteret: John B. Russell (Dem)
Caswell: Charles J. Yarborough (Rep)
Catawba: A. C. Boggs (Dem)
Chatham: Los L. Wrenn (Rep)
Chatham: J. A. Giles (Rep)
Cherokee: W. E. Manney (Dem)
Chowan: W. Dorsey Welch (Dem)
Clay: George M. Fleming (Dem)
Cleveland: Clyde R. Hoey (Dem)
Columbus: D. C. Allen (Dem)
Craven: Isaac H. Smith (Rep)
Cumberland: D. J. Ray (Dem)
Cumberland: H. McD. Robinson (Dem)
Curritick: Samuel M. Beasley (Dem)
Dare: Charles T. Williams (Dem)
Davidson: Charles M. Thompson (Dem)
Davie: Gaston L. White (Rep)
Duplin: James O. Carr (Dem)
Durham: Howard A. Foushee (Dem)
Edgecombe: Henry A. Gilliam (Dem)
Forsyth: J. K. P. Carter (Rep)
Forsyth: William A. Lowery (Rep)
Franklin: P. A. Davis (Dem)
Gaston: L. H. J. Hauser (Dem)
Gates: John M. Trotman (Dem)
Graham: O. P. Williams (Rep)
Granville: C. W. Bryan (Dem)
Granville: A. A. Lyon (Dem)
Greene: John E. W. Sugg (Dem)
Guilford: John C. Kennett (Dem)
Guilford: John C. Bunch (Dem)
Halifax: H. S. Harrison (Dem)
Halifax: W. P. White (Dem)
Harnett: Dan Hugh McLean (Dem)
Haywood: Joseph S. Davis (Dem)
Henderson: M. S. Justus (Rep)
Hertford: Isaac F. Snipes (Rep)
Hyde: Claude W. Davis (Dem)
Iredell: John B. Holman (Dem)
Iredell: Thomas J. Williams (Dem)
Jackson: Walter E. Moore (Dem)
Johnston: J. F. Brown (Dem)
Johnston: D. G. Johnson (Dem)
Jones: G. G. Noble (Dem)
Lenoir: W. W. Carraway (Dem)
Lincoln: John F. Rheinhart (Dem)
McDowell: Edward J. Justice (Dem)
Macon: J. Frank Ray (Dem)
Madison: A. B. Bryant (Rep)
Martin: Harry W. Stubbs (Dem)
Mecklenburg: Heriot Clarkson (Dem)
Mecklenburg: J. E. Henderson (Dem)
Mecklenburg: R. M. Ransom (Dem)
Mitchell: J. R. Pritchard (Rep)
Montgomery: W. A. Cochran (Dem)
Moore: John L. Currie (Dem)
Nash: Cicero T. Ellen (Dem)
New Hanover: George Rountree (Dem)
New Hanover: Martin S. Willard (Dem)
Northampton: W. C. Coates (Rep)
Onslow: Frank Thompson (Dem)
Orange: Samuel M. Gattis (Dem)
Pamlico: George Dees (Dem)
Pasquotank: J. B. Leigh (Dem)
Pender: Gibson James (Dem)
Perquimans: F. H. Nicholson (Rep)
Person: Charles A. Whitfield (Dem)
Pitt: W. J. Nichols (Dem)
Pitt: T. H. Barnhill (Dem)
Polk: J. W. McFarland (Rep)
Randolph: T. J. Redding (Dem)
Randolph: J. M. Burrow (Rep)
Richmond: Henry Clay Wall (Dem)
Robeson: Gilbert B. Patterson (Dem)
Robeson: James S. Oliver (Dem)
Rockingham: J. H. Lane (Dem)
Rockingham: J. R. Garrett (Dem)
Rowan: Lee Slater Overman (Dem)
Rowan: D. R. Julian (Dem)
Rutherford: J. F. Alexander (Dem)
Sampson: Robert M. Crumpler (Pop)
Sampson: Cicero H. Johnson] (Pop)
Stanly: J. M. Brown (Dem)
Stokes: Riley J. Petree (Rep)
Surry: William W. Hampton (Rep)
Swain: R. L. Leatherwood (Dem)
Transylvania: George W. Wilson (Dem)
Tyrrell: William Maitland (Dem)
Union: R. L. Stevens (Dem)
Vance: James Youman Eaton (Rep)
Wake: John D. Boushall (Dem)
Wake: Gaston Powell (Dem)
Wake: W. H. Holland (Dem)
Warren: J. H. Wright (Rep)
Washington: T. L. Tarkenton (Pop)
Watauga: W. B. Council, Jr. (Dem)
Wayne: William R. Allen (Dem)
Wayne: J. M. Wood (Dem)
Wilkes: E. B. Hendren (Rep)
Wilkes: W. A. Tharpe (Rep) who lived in Byrd, North Carolina^[5]
Wilson: Henry G. Connor (Dem)
Yadkin: H. S. Williams (Rep)
Yancey: W. M. Austin (Dem)

Senate

Senate leadership

North Carolina Senate officers
Position	Name	Party
President Pro Tem^[1]	R. L. Smith F. A. Whitaker	Democratic

Senate members

Senators and their home county are listed below:^[3]^[6]

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 (Dem)
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 (Dem)
District 25: Frank I. Osborne of Mecklenburg
District 26: Robert Broadnax Glenn of Forsyth (Dem); 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

References

^ ^a ^b The North Carolina Manual, published by the North Carolina Secretary of State, lists both Smith and Whitaker as President pro tempore for 1899–1900. Whether this means that they alternated in the post or that Smith resigned and was succeeded by Whitaker mid-session is unknown.
^ "The North Carolina Election of 1898". The North Carolina Collection. The University of North Carolina Libraries. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c Connor, R.D.D. (1913). A Manual of North Carolina (PDF). Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission. p. 441. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
^ Nixon, Brevard (1899). Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of North Carolina (1899) (PDF). Retrieved October 11, 2019.
^ Carolina, North (1899). "Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina".
^ Daniels, C.C. (1899). Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of North Carolina (1899) (PDF).

External links

UNC Libraries Election of 1898

[protem-1] The North Carolina Manual, published by the North Carolina Secretary of State, lists both Smith and Whitaker as President pro tempore for 1899–1900. Whether this means that they alternated in the post or that Smith resigned and was succeeded by Whitaker mid-session is unknown.

[2] "The North Carolina Election of 1898". The North Carolina Collection. The University of North Carolina Libraries. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2011.

[Connor-3] Connor, R.D.D. (1913). A Manual of North Carolina (PDF). Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission. p. 441. Retrieved April 27, 2019.

[HouseJournal-4] Nixon, Brevard (1899). Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of North Carolina (1899) (PDF). Retrieved October 11, 2019.

[5] Carolina, North (1899). "Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina".

[JournalSenate-6] Daniels, C.C. (1899). Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of North Carolina (1899) (PDF).

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v t e North Carolina General Assemblies by year convened and order
List of North Carolina state legislatures Senate President pro tempore of the Senate House of Commons House of Representatives Speakers of the House of Representatives (see Note)	1 (1777) 2 (1778) 3 (1779) 4 (1780) 5 (1781) 6 (1782) 7 (1783) 8 (Apr 1784) 9 (Oct 1784) 10 (1785) 11 (1786) 12 (1787) 13 (1788) 14 (1789) 15 (1790) 16 (1791) 17 (1792) 18 (1793) 19 (1794) 20 (1795) 21 (1796) 22 (1797) 23 (1798) 24 (1799) 25 (1800) 26 (1801) 27 (1802) 28 (1803) 29 (1804) 30 (1805) 31 (1806) 32 (1807) 33 (1808) 34 (1809) 35 (1810) 36 (1811) 37 (1812) 38 (1813) 39 (1814) 40 (1815) 41 (1816) 42 (1817) 43 (1818) 44 (1819) 45 (1820) 46 (1821) 47 (1822) 48 (1823) 49 (1824) 50 (1825) 51 (1826) 52 (1827) 53 (1828) 54 (1829) 55 (1830) 56 (1831) 57 (1832) 58 (1833) 59 (1834) 60 (1835) 61 (1836) 62 (1840) 63 (1842) 64 (1844) 65 (1846) 66 (1846) 67 (1848) 68 (1850) 69 (1852) 70 (1854) 71 (1856) 72 (1858) 73 (1860) 74 (1862) 75 (1864) 76 (1865) 77 (1866) 78 (1868) 79 (1869) 80 (1870) 81 (1872) 82 (1874) 83 (1876) 84 (1879) 85 (1881) 86 (1883) 87 (1885) 88 (1887) 89 (1889) 90 (1891) 91 (1893) 92 (1895) 93 (1897) 94 (1899) 95 (1901) 96 (1903) 97 (1905) 98 (1907) 99 (1909) 100 (1911) 101 (1913) 102 (1915) 103 (1917) 104 (1919) 105 (1921) 106 (1923) 107 (1925) 108 (1927) 109 (1929) 110 (1931) 111 (1933) 112 (1935) 113 (1937) 114 (1939) 115 (1941) 116 (1943) 117 (1945) 118 (1947) 119 (1949) 120 (1951) 121 (1953) 122 (1955) 123 (1957) 124 (1959) 125 (1961) 126 (1963) 127 (1965) 128 (1967) 129 (1969) 130 (1971) 131 (1973) 132 (1975) 133 (1977) 134 (1979) 135 (1981) 136 (1983) 137 (1985) 138 (1987) 139 (1989) 140 (1991) 141 (1993) 142 (1995) 143 (1997) 144 (1999) 145 (2001) 146 (2003) 147 (2005) 148 (2007) 149 (2009) 150 (2011) 151 (2013) 152 (2015) 153 (2017) 154 (2019) 155 (2021) 156 (2023)
Other	Executive Branch: Governor of North Carolina (List), Lieutenant Governor (since 1868), Cabinets, Council of State, Attorney General
Conventions	Hillsborough Convention of 1788, Fayetteville Convention of 1789
Provincial Congresses and Constitution	North Carolina Provincial Congress (1774–1776: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th), Constitution of North Carolina (1776, 1835 Convention, 1861 Convention, 1868 redraft, 1875 Convention, Constitution of 1971)
Notes: Prior to the Constitution of 1868: the lower house of the North Carolina Legislature was known as the House of Commons and the leader of the Senate was called the Speaker of the Senate.