Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 8: December, 1942 North Carolina had three Governors during the Revolution: Richard Caswell of Lenoir County, 1777-1780; Abner Nash of Craven, 1780-1781; Thomas Burke of Orange. 1781-1782. Governor Nash is pictured above. Three Governors served during the Civil War: John W. Ellis of Rowan, 1861; Henry T. Clark of Edgecombe, 1861-1862; Zebulon B. Vance of Bun combe, 1862-1864. The picture of Governor Vance is shown above. Thomas tv. Bickett of Franklin County was Governor during the world War we entered in 1917 and J. Melville Broughton of Wake is the War Governor of the World War we entered in 1941. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.