Capital: Raleigh

State Nickname: Tar Heel State

State Bird: Cardinal

State Flower: Dogwood

Admitted to the Union: November 21, 1789

December 30, 1787 to December 17, 1789:

Samuel Johnston

December 17, 1789 to December 14, 1792:

Alexander Martin

December 14, 1792 to November 19, 1795:

Richard D. Spaight

November 19, 1795 to December 7, 1798:

Samuel Ashe

December 7, 1798 to November 23, 1799:

William R. Davie

November 23, 1799 to December 6, 1802:

Benjamin Williams

December 6, 1802 to December 10, 1806:

James Turner

December 10, 1805 to December 1, 1807:

Nathaniel Alexander

December 1, 1807 to December 12, 1808:

Benjamin Williams

December 12, 1808 to December 1, 1810:

David Stone

December 5, 1810 to December 11, 1811:

Benjamin Smith

December 11, 1811 to November 29, 1814:

William Hawkins

December 7, 1814 to December 3, 1817:

William Miller

December 6, 1817 to December 7, 1820:

John Branch

December 7, 1820 to December 1, 1821:

Jesse Franklin

December 7, 1821 to December 7, 1824:

Gabriel Holmes

December 7, 1824 to December 8, 1827:

Hutchins G. Burton

December 8, 1827 to December 12, 1828:

James Iredell

December 12, 1828 to December 18, 1830:

John Owen

December 18, 1830 to December 6, 1832:

Montfort Stokes

December 6, 1832 to December 10, 1835:

David L. Swain

December 10, 1835 to December 31, 1836:

Richard D. Spaight, Jr.

December 31, 1836 to January 1, 1841:

Edward B. Dudley

January 1, 1841 to January 1, 1845:

John M. Morehead

January 1, 1845 to January 1, 1849:

William A. Graham

January 1, 1849 ro January 1, 1851:

Charles Manly

January 1, 1851 to December 6, 1854:

David S. Reid*

* Resigned from office

December 6, 1854 to January 1, 1855:

Warren Winslow*

* Acting Governor

January 1, 1855 to January 1, 1859:

Thomas Bragg

January 1, 1859 to January 1, 1861:

John W. Ellis*

* Died in office

July 7, 1861 to September 8, 1862:

Henry T. Clark*

* Acting governor

September 8, 1862 to May 29, 1865:

Zebulon B. Vance*

* Removed from office -- Last Confederate governor

May 29, 1865 to December 15, 1865:

William W. Holden*

* Provisional governor appointed by President Johnson

December 15, 1865 to July 1, 1868:

Jonathan Worth*

* Removed from officer

July 1, 1868 to December 15, 1870:

William W. Holden*

* Removed from office

December 15, 1870 to July 11, 1874:

Tod R. Caldwell*

* Died in office

July 11, 1874 to January 1, 1877:

Curtis H. Brogden

January 1, 1877 to February 8, 1879*

Zebulon B. Vance*

* Resigned from office

February 5, 1879 to January 21, 1885:

Thomas J. Jarvis

January 21, 1885 to January 17, 1889:

Alfred M. Scales

January 17, 1889 to April 8, 1891:

Daniel G. Fowle*

* Died in office

April 8, 1891 to January 18, 1893:

Thomas M. Holt

January 18, 1893 to January 12, 1897:

Elias Carr

January 12, 1897 to January 15, 1901:

Daniel L. Russell

January 15, 1901 to January 11, 1905:

Charles B. Aycock

January 11, 1905 to January 12, 1909:

R. B. Glenn

January 12, 1909 to January 15, 1913:

W. H. Kitchin

January 15, 1913 to January 11, 1917:

Locke Craig

January 11, 1917 to January 12, 1921:

Thomas W. Bickett

January 12, 1921 to January 14, 1925:

Cameron Morrison

January 14, 1925 to January 11, 1929:

Angus Wilton McLean

January 11, 1929 to January 5, 1933:

O. Max Gardner

January 5, 1933 to January 7, 1937:

John C. B. Ehringhaus

January 7, 1937 to January 9, 1941:

Clyde R. Holey

January 9, 1941 to January 4, 1945:

J. Melville Broughton

January 4, 1945 to January 6, 1949:

R. Gregg Cherry

January 6, 1949 t0 January 8, 1953:

W. Kerr Scott

January 8, 1853 to November 7, 1954:

William B. Umstead*

* Died in office

November 7, 1954 to January 5, 1916:

Luther H. Hodges

January 5, 1961 to January 8, 1965:

Terry Sanford

January 8, 1965 to January 3, 1969:

Dan K. Moore

January 3, 1969 to January 5, 1973:

Robert W. Scott

January 5, 1973 to January 8, 1977:

James E. Holshouser, Jr.

January 8, 1977 to January 5, 1985:

James B. Hunt, Jr.

January 5, 1985 to January 9, 1993:

James G. Martin

January 9, 1993 to 2001:

Hames B. Hunt, Jr.

2001 --

Mike Easley

Lyrics by William Gaston
Music by Mrs. E. E. Randolph

1790: 395,005

1800: 478,103

1810: 555,500

1820: 638,829

1830: 737,987

1840: 753,419

1850: 869,039

1860: 992,622

1870: 1,071,361

1880: 1,399,750

1890: 1,617,947

1900: 1,893,810

1910: 2,206,287

1920: 2,559,227

1930: 3,170,276

1940: 3,571,623

1950: 4,061,929

1960: 4,536,155

1970: 5,084,411

1980: 5,881,766

1990: 6,628,637

2000: 8,045,451