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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaMontfort STOKES
(1762-1842)
Senate Years of Service:
1816-1823Party: Democratic
RepublicanSTOKES, Montfort, a
Senator from North Carolina; born in Lunenburg County, Va., March
12, 1762; served in the Revolutionary War in the Continental Navy;
was captured by the British and confined for seven months on the
British prison ship Jersey in New York Harbor; after the
Revolutionary War settled in North Carolina and engaged in
planting; clerk of the State senate 1786-1791; clerk of the
superior court of Rowan County, N.C.; elected as United States
Senator in 1804, but declined; trustee of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill 1805-1838; about 1812 settled in
Wilkesboro, N.C.; elected in 1816 to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Turner; elected
at same time for the full term and served from December 4, 1816, to
March 3, 1823; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
(Fifteenth through Seventeenth Congresses); member, State senate
1826; member, State house of representatives 1829-1830; Governor of
North Carolina 1830-1832, when he resigned; appointed by President
Andrew Jackson in 1832 as a member of the Board of Indian
Commissioners and resided at Fort Gibson in what is now Oklahoma;
was later appointed as a commissioner to negotiate treaties with
various tribes of Indians in the West and Southwest; appointed
agent for the Cherokee Indians 1837-1842, when he was made subagent
for the Senecas, Shawnees, and Quapaws; died at Fort Gibson,
November 4, 1842; interment in Fort Gibson Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Foster, William. “The Career of Montfort
Stokes in North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical
Review 16 (1939): 237-72; Martin, Mrs. John N. “Stokes
Notes.” William and Mary Quarterly, 2d ser. 8 (January
1928): 124-33.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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