Gabriel Holmes

Gabriel Holmes
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 5th district
In office March 4, 1825 – September 26, 1829
Preceded by	Charles Hooks
Succeeded by	Edward Bishop Dudley
Governor of North Carolina
In office December 7, 1821 – December 7, 1824
Preceded by	Jesse Franklin
Succeeded by	Hutchins Gordon Burton
Personal details
Born	1769 (1769) near Clinton, Province of North Carolina, British America
Died	September 26, 1829 (aged 59–60) near Clinton, North Carolina, U.S.
Political party	Jacksonian
Alma mater	Harvard University
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Gabriel Holmes (1769 – September 26, 1829) was the 21st Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1821 to 1824. He also served as a Representative from North Carolina. He was non-aligned and represented no political party.

Biography

Gabriel Holmes was born near Clinton in the Province of North Carolina in 1769. He attended Zion Parnassus Academy in Rowan County and Harvard University, studied law in Raleigh, N.C., was admitted to the bar in 1790. and commenced practice in Clinton, N.C. He served in the State House of Commons 1794 and 1795; member of the State Senate 1797–1802, 1812, and 1813; Governor of North Carolina 1821–1824; elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1825, until his death near Clinton, Sampson County, N.C., September 26, 1829. He was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Twentieth Congress).

He was buried in the John Sampson Cemetery. His body was moved there on Memorial Day, 1984, by the Sampson County Historical Society.

He was the father of the Confederate Lieutenant General Theophilus H. Holmes.

See also

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)