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Line 1: {{short description\|Governor of North Carolina, USA (1766-1824)}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox Governor Line 8 ⟶ 9: \|term_end =December 10, 1805 \|lieutenant = \|predecessor =[[~~Benjamin~~John ~~Williams~~Baptista Ashe (Continental Congress)\|John Ashe]] (Elect) \|successor =[[Nathaniel Alexander (governor)\|Nathaniel Alexander]] \|order2 =[[United States Senator]]<br/>from [[North Carolina]] Line 20 ⟶ 21: \|term4 =1801–1802 \|birth_date = {{birth date\|1766\|12\|20}} \|birth_place =[[Southampton County, Virginia\|Southampton County]], [[Colony of Virginia]], [[British America]] \|death_date ={{death date and age\|1824\|1\|15\|1766\|12\|20}} \|death_place =[[Warren County, North Carolina~~\|Warren County~~]], ~~[[North Carolina]], [[United States\|~~U.S.]] \|nationality = \|party =[[Democratic-Republican Party\|Democratic-Republican]] Line 38 ⟶ 39: }} '''James Turner''' (December 20, 1766 – January 15, 1824) was the ~~[[List of Governors of North Carolina\|~~12th]] [[Governor of North Carolina\|Governor]] of the [[U.S. state]] of [[North Carolina]] from 1802 to 1805. He later served as a [[United States Senate\|U.S. ~~senator~~Senator]] from 1805 to 1816. Turner was born in [[Southampton County, Virginia\|Southampton County]] in the [[Colony of Virginia]]; his family moved to the [[Province of North Carolina]] in 1770. Raised in a family of farmers, Turner served in the North Carolina volunteer militia during the [[American Revolutionary War]] in 1780. He served under [[Nathanael Greene]] alongside [[Nathaniel Macon]], with whom he formed a lasting friendship and political alliance. Line 50 ⟶ 51: === U.S. Senate === Turner served as a senator for eleven years, re-elected to a second term in 1811, resigning due to ill health in 1816. During his time in office, he supported the administration of [[James Madison]] during the [[War of 1812]]. Around 1805, he introduced to the Senate a [[Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves\|bill outlawing the importation of slaves]]. == Personal life, death, legacy == Line 59 ⟶ 60: ==Sources== * ''Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978'', [[Robert Sobel]] and John Raimo, eds. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. ({{ISBN\|0-930466-00-4}}) [http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&sv=G-46 North Carolina Historical Marker] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714161959/http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&sv=G-46 \|date=July 14, 2011 }} James Moody Turner Charles L. Coon, The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina: A Documentary History, 1790–1840 (1908) * Delbert H. Gilpatrick, Jeffersonian Democracy in North Carolina, 1789–1816 (1931) Line 66 ⟶ 67: {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box\|title=[[Governor of North Carolina]]\|before=[[~~Benjamin~~John ~~Williams~~Baptista Ashe (Continental Congress)\|John Ashe]]<br>Elect\|after=[[Nathaniel Alexander (governor)\|Nathaniel Alexander]]\|years=1802–1805}} {{s-par\|us-sen}} {{U.S. Senator box Line 83 ⟶ 84: {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, James}} [[Category:Governors of North Carolina]] [[Category:United States ~~Senators~~senators from North Carolina]] [[Category:Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives]] [[Category:1766 births]]