1777 North Carolina gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly 1777 North Carolina gubernatorial election North Carolina File:Flag of the United States (1776–1777).svg Presidential no no 1778 North Carolina gubernatorial election 1778 April 18, 1777 Members of the General Assembly Majority of 150x150px File:Richard Caswell (governor).jpg Richard Caswell Moderate Governor Richard Caswell Moderate Richard Caswell Moderate A gubernatorial election was held in North Carolina on April 18, 1777. The incumbent governor of North Carolina Richard Caswell was re-elected.Mobley 2016 38 Caswell, a militia officer and former president of the North Carolina Provincial Congress, led a coalition of radical and moderate Whigs that displaced the previously-dominant conservative political faction after 1776. Factional politics reflected regional interests, with the predominantly Western radicals aligned with moderates from the Cape Fear River against the Albemarle conservatives.Smith 1980 351–52, 12–13 Following adoption of the Constitution of North Carolina in December 1776, Caswell was appointed to serve as governor until the election of a successor.Mobley 2016 38 The election was conducted by the North Carolina General Assembly in joint session. Caswell was elected unanimously on the first ballot.Clark 1895 27 References Bibliography Clark Walter The State Records of North Carolina 12, 1777–78 1895 none Winston, NC https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_State_Records_of_North_Carolina_1662/L1lKAQAAMAAJ Mobley Joe A. North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell: Founding Father and Revolutionary Hero 2016 History Press Charleston, SC https://www.google.com/books/edition/North_Carolina_Governor_Richard_Caswell/NXhmDQAAQBAJ Smith Penelope Sue 1980 Creation of an American State: Politics in North Carolina, 1765–1789 https://repository.rice.edu/items/13e77b1a-9594-417e-8419-d24611c268a9 PhD Houston Rice University Category:North Carolina gubernatorial elections Category:1777 in North Carolina Category:1777 elections in the United States NC gov 1777 Category:Single-candidate gubernatorial elections in North Carolina Category:Indirect gubernatorial elections in the United States Category:United States gubernatorial elections in the 1770s