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David Settle Reid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (426 words) |
 | David Settle Reid (19 April 1813 - 19 June 1891) was a two-term Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1851 to 1854 and a U.S. Senator from December 1854 to March 1859. |
| In 1850, Reid defeated Manly by 2,853 votes, returning the Democrats to the governor's office for the first time since 1836, when the state constitution changed so that the people, rather than the legislature, chose the Governor. |
| Reid was a member of a state constitutional convention in 1875. |
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