| 词条 | John Owen (North Carolina politician) |
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|name =John Owen |image = John Owen.jpg |order =24th |office =Governor of North Carolina |term_start =December 12, 1828 |term_end =December 18, 1830 |predecessor =James Iredell, Jr. |successor =Montfort Stokes |birth_date ={{birth-date|August 1787}} |birth_place =Bladen County, North Carolina |death_date ={{death-date and age|October 9, 1841|August 1787}} |death_place =Chatham County, North Carolina |nationality = American |party =Democratic }} John Owen (August 1787{{spnd}}October 9, 1841) was the 24th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the first Democrat NC Governor from 1828 to 1830. BiographyOwen was born in Bladen County, North Carolina; he was the son of Thomas Owen, a judge and member of the state legislature. He briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but did not earn a degree. In 1812, Owen was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons and served there for two years; he was later elected to one year in the North Carolina Senate (1819–1820). Named to the North Carolina Council of State in 1824, Owen returned to the state senate in 1827 but was elected Governor by the General Assembly in December 1828, narrowly defeating Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. in a vote of 96 to 92. Owen served two consecutive one-year terms as governor, during which he promoted education and served concurrently as President of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees. He was nominated for a third term as governor, but declined the nomination; that same year, he lost by one vote (to Willie Mangum) a bid to represent North Carolina in the United States Senate. In 1835, Owen was a prominent member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention; there, he supported enfrancishement of land-owning Negro citizens and opposed religious tests for officeholders. Although during his earlier political life, Owen affiliated himself with the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, in 1839, he presided over the first state convention of the emerging Whig Party; three weeks later, he served as president of the National Whig Convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Owen was offered the vice-presidential position on the Whig presidential ticket of William Henry Harrison; he turned down the nomination. Had he accepted, Owen might have become President of the United States following Harrison's death early in office instead of John Tyler. Owen retired to his farm in Chatham County, North Carolina, where he died on October 9, 1841 (Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette, Raleigh, NC, October 19, 1841, page 3, column 5); he is buried in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Sources
|year=1978 |title=Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978 |editor1-first=Robert |editor1-last=Sobel |editor1-link=Robert Sobel |editor2-first=John |editor2-last=Raimo |publisher=Meckler Books |location=Westport, CT |isbn=0-930466-00-4 }}{{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box|title=Governor of North Carolina|before=James Iredell, Jr.|after=Montfort Stokes|years=1828–1830}}{{s-end}}{{Governors of North Carolina}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Owen, John}} 10 : 1787 births|1841 deaths|American people of Welsh descent|Governors of North Carolina|People from Bladen County, North Carolina|North Carolina Democrats|North Carolina state senators|Democratic Party state governors of the United States|North Carolina Whigs|19th-century American politicians |
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