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|term_end =December 10, 1805
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|predecessor =[[BenjaminJohn WilliamsBaptista Ashe (Continental Congress)|John Ashe]] (Elect)
|successor =[[Nathaniel Alexander (governor)|Nathaniel Alexander]]
|order2 =[[United States Senator]]<br/>from [[North Carolina]]
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|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.]]
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|party =[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]
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'''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. senatorSenator]] 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.
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==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)
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