North Carolina General Assembly of 1899–1900

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.

94th North Carolina General Assembly (1899–1900)
← 1897 1901 →
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[1]	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

House of Representatives

House leadership

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

House members

Rep. Francis D. Winston

Rep. Locke Craig

Rep. Lee Slater Overman

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

Lieutenant Governor Charles A. Reynolds

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

Senate members

Sen. Robert Broadnax Glenn

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

See also

• North Carolina General Assembly
• List of North Carolina state legislatures

References

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.
3. Connor, R.D.D. (1913). A Manual of North Carolina (PDF). Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission. p. 441. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
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".
6. Daniels, C.C. (1899). Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of North Carolina (1899) (PDF).

External links

• UNC Libraries Election of 1898