James Turner

James Turner

Infobox Governor
name =James Turner


order =12th
office =Governor of North Carolina
term_start =1802
term_end =1805
lieutenant =
predecessor =Benjamin Williams
successor =Nathaniel Alexander
order2 =United States Senator from North Carolina
term_start2 =March 4, 1805
term_end2 =November 21, 1816
predecessor2 = None
successor2 = Alexander Martin
birth_date = December 20, 1766
birth_place =Southampton County, Virginia
death_date =January 15, 1824
death_place =Warren County, North Carolina
nationality =
party =Democratic-Republican
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James Turner (20 December 176615 January 1824) was the Democratic-Republican governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1802 to 1805. He later served as a U.S. senator between 1805 and 1816.

Turner was born in Southampton County, Virginia; his family moved to Warren County, North Carolina in 1770. Raised in a family of farmers, Turner served in the North Carolina volunteer militia during the American Revolutionary War in 1780. He served under Nathanael Greene alongside Nathaniel Macon, with whom he formed a lasting friendship and political alliance.

In 1798, Turner was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons; he served there from 1799 to 1800, and served in the North Carolina Senate from 1801 to 1802. In 1802, the General Assembly elected John Baptista Ashe governor, but he died before he could assume office; Turner was chosen in his place and sworn in on 5 December 1802. He served the constitutional limit of three one-year terms and, at the end of this time as governor, was named to the United States Senate.

Turner served as a senator for eleven years, re-elected to a second term in 1811 and resigning due to ill health in 1816. During his time in office, he supported the administration of James Madison during the War of 1812.

Turner was married three times; first to Marian Anderson in 1793 (they had four children), then to Ann Chocran in 1802, with no children, and finally to Elizabethg Johnston in 1810 (resulting in two children). Turner died in 1824 and is buried on his "Bloomsbury" plantation in Warren County. In addition to Bloomsbury, he owned a second home, "Oakland," in present-day Vance County.

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* "Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978", Robert Sobel and John Raimo, eds. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. (ISBN 0-930466-00-4)
* [http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&sv=G-46 North Carolina Historical Marker]


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