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Curtis Hooks Brogden ( 6 December 1816 – 5 January 1901 ) was the Republican Governor of the U.S. State of North Carolina from 1874 to 1877 . He was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina , and the son of a local farmer. Brogden joined the North Carolina state militia at the age of 18 and rose to the rank of Major General . First elected to the North Carolina House Of Commons in 1838 as a Democrat , he served in the leigslature for nearly 15 years, until 1851 . In 1838 , he was also elected Wayne County Justice of the Peace, a position he held for twenty consecutive years. In 1852 , Brogden rose to the North Carolina Senate , where he served until 1857 , when he was named North Carolina Comptroller by the General Assembly . Brogden briefly left the senate in 1867 ; during the span from 1867 - 1868 , he represented Wayne County at a state constitutional convention and was a member of the Electoral College supporting Ulysses S. Grant . Brogden returned to the North Carolina senate in 1868 and served for four years until he was elected Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket with Tod R. Caldwell . When Caldwell died in office, Brogden succeeded to the position of governor. During his term in office, the state saw the re-opening of the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill ; Brogden also called for the formation of a black college and a state penitentiary. At the end of his term as governor, Brogden was elected to the United States House Of Representatives , where he served only one term 1877 – 1879 , after which he retired from public life (with the exception of a single term, in 1887 , representing Wayne County in the North Carolina House of Commons). Brogden died in his hometown of Goldsboro in 1901 and is buried there. |
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