Davie, William Richardson

Born: 1756 AD
Died: 1820 AD, at 64 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Lawyers, Politician

US (English-born) lawyer and politician

1756 - Born in Egremont Parish, Cumberland County, England, on the 22nd of June to Archibald and Mary Richardson Davie.

1771 - Davie traveled to North Carolina at the age of fifteen to studied at Queen's College in Charlotte.

1774 - Enrolled at the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University).

1776 - Received his bachelor's degree at the College of New Jersey.

1777 - He left Salisbury to join 1,200 militiamen led by Brigadier General Allen Jones of Northampton County.

1779 - He closed his law books again to reenter military service.

- On 20th of June, he led a charge against British forces at the Battle of Stono Ferry outside Charleston.

- Obtained a license to practice law in North Carolina.

1780 - He led that mounted force in several actions during the summer.

1786-1798 - He was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons on multiple occasions.

1787 - Served as a member of the Constitutional Convention.

1789-1807 - Founder and served as board of trustees of University of North Carolina.

1797 - Appointed brigadier general in the U.S. Army by President John Adams.

1798-1799 - Elected Governor of North Carolina.

1798 - Served as president of University of North Carolina.

1799 - He resigned as the state's chief executive.

- President Adams enlisted him to serve on a peace commission to France.

1803 - He ran for the U.S. House of Representatives but ended unsuccessful.

1804 - In the election, he placed second to Alston with an unofficial write-in campaign.

1805-1806 - Davie, unsuccessful in a run for the U.S. House of Representatives.

1812 - Davie served in the army, but declined an offer from President James Madison to command the American forces.

1820 - He died on 5th of November in his Tivoli estate.

1836 - Davie County, North Carolina is named in his memory.

Page last updated: 5:49pm, 12^th May '07

	William R. Davie by Blackwell P Robinson (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 2008)
	William R. Davie and Frank P. Graham: A remarkable founding father and a remarkable son : University Day address, Memorial Hall, October 12, 1986 by William Brantley Aycock (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 1986)
	An address delivered before the South Carolina Agricultural Society at their anniversary meeting, held in Columbia on the 8th of December, 1818 by William Richardson Davie (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 2008)
	The story of two portraits, (University of North Carolina record. [no. 189]) by William Way (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 2008)
	The origin of the Catawba grape,: And other sketches by F. A Sondley (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 2008)
	An address upon the life and services of Gen. William R. Davie by Walter Clark (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970)