1. Richard Caswell was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first and fifth governor of the US state of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1787.
13 Facts About Richard Caswell
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Richard Caswell served as a senior officer of militia in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
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Richard Caswell was appointed deputy surveyor for the province in 1750.
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Richard Caswell was a prosperous lawyer, farmer, land speculator, tanner, and grand master of North Carolina.
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Richard Caswell fought the Regulators at Alamance during the Regulator Movement, where it is thought he commanded the right wing of Governor Tryon's forces.
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Richard Caswell represented North Carolina in the Continental Congresses of 1774 and 1775.
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Richard Caswell was president of the North Carolina Provincial Congress that wrote the first Constitution of North Carolina in 1776.
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Richard Caswell stepped down in 1780, as the state constitution allowed only three consecutive one-year terms to command the militia.
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Richard Caswell served as the comptroller of North Carolina and as a member of the North Carolina Senate between his two gubernatorial terms.
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Richard Caswell was chosen to be one of North Carolina's delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention of 1787, but he did not attend.
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Richard Caswell married Mary Mackilwean, the daughter of James and Elinor Mackilwean.
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Caswell's son Richard was colonel of Dobbs Regiment and lieutenant colonel of the 2nd North Carolina Regiment during the American Revolutionary War.
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Richard Caswell wrote the proposal into the first North Carolina constitution in 1776.