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North Carolina Legislature Opens Its Session With Officer Elections
Lt Governor Turner presided over the Senate at noon as officers were sworn in. In the House Chief Clerk Hackett and other officers were elected, Speaker Guion was chosen, and the body organized. Committees for both chambers, including Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Public Roads, were named. The Governor’s inaugural message was read and printed, and a day’s legislative business included several bills and routine motions.
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Turner
Senate
Hackett
House
J. McK. Pittinger
Church of the Good Shepherd
Senae
A. J. Maxwell
Ward
Craven
Maxwell
Senator Vann
Waler L. Cohoon
Reading
Cohoon
L. Brown Pegram
Aaron
Pegram
Eller
Robert N. Staley
Toms
J. W. Simpson
Burton
A. Webb
Bryan
Pearson
Burke
Webb
Senate Aly
Loye
Wulative Woodward
Wilson
Orn
Congress
Beaufort
Hackett Announc
House of
Guion
Warren
Jones
Robinson
Guilford
Crisp
North Carolina
Frank D. Hackett
Wilkes
Little
Pitt
Graham
Lincoln
T. B. Arendell
M. D. Kimsland
Haywood
John H. Kerr
Caswell
D. H. Jones
Cofield
Jules Cowles
Judiciary
Winborn
Stewart
Rector
Henderson County
Granville
Laughinghouse
Murphy
Rowan
Haston
Forsyth
Robison