Richard Dobbs Spaight, the Younger
Born 1790 – Died 1850
Graduate and for twenty-nine years a trustee of the University of North Carolina, member of the North Carolina House of Commons for one term, and of the State Senate for fourteen terms, member of the eighteenth Congress of the United States; Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of North Carolina for two terms, member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1835; and the last Governor of North Carolina elected by the General Assembly.
Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street (U.S. 17) and Craven Street, on the left when traveling east on Broad Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
