Gabriel Holmes
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Gabriel Holmes (1769Template:SpndSeptember 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.<ref name=Cyclopaedia>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref>N.C. Archives</ref>
He was the father of the Confederate Lieutenant General Theophilus H. Holmes.
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- 1769 births
- 1829 deaths
- People from Clinton, North Carolina
- Governors of North Carolina
- Harvard University alumni
- Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina
- Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States
- North Carolina Democratic-Republicans
- 19th-century United States representatives