Person:Montfort Stokes (1)

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STOKES, Montfort, (1762 - 1842)
Senate Years of Service: 1816-1823
Party: Democratic Republican

STOKES, 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.

Montfort Stokes
BIRTH 12 Mar 1762
Lunenburg County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 4 Nov 1842 (aged 80)
BURIAL Fort Gibson National Cemetery
Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA

*Montfort Stokes served in the U.S. Senate prior to his term as governor, a post from which he resigned in 1832 to accept President's Andrew Jackson's appointment as chairman of a federal Indian commission.

Stokes was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, on March 12, 1762, the eleventh child of planter David Stokes and the former Sarah Montfort.

He went to sea as a youth of thirteen, and during the Revolution enlisted in the Continental Navy.

Following the Revolution, he settled briefly in Halifax and then in Salisbury, where he read law under his brother John and began a lifelong and politically important friendship with Andrew Jackson.

His first wife was Mary Irwin of Tarboro, whom he married in 1790.

His second wife, whom he married in 1796, was Rachel Montgomery of Salisbury.

Together, the two marriages produced eleven children.

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