14 jan 1836 ano - After years of having governors elected by the state senate, Edward B. Dudley becomes the first popularly elected governor of North Carolina

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He was a Whig which was a person who supported the supremacy of Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization, etc. He was in the House of Representatives from 1829 to 1831 then after that he served as North Carolina’s governor from 1836 to 1841.