Williams served for three years ; during his last year in office, he pardoned Congressional Representative John Stanly, who had killed former Gov.

The region remained part of Montgomery County until 1841, when after years of attempted separation, prominent residents of the increasingly populous areas west of the Yadkin / Pee Dee River system successfully petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly for the establishment of Stanly County as an independent entity.

The Democrats and Free Soilers attempted a compromise on the 40th ballot, but this was exposed when Edward Stanly, a Whig from North Carolina, exposed the deal.

In May 1862, Lincoln appointed Edward Stanly Military Governor of the coastal region of North Carolina with the rank of Brigadier General.

Iredell, Rowan, Lincoln, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Stanly, Union, Anson

As of the 2000 Census, Stanly County is located entirely in North Carolina's 8th congressional district and is currently represented in the 111th United States Congress by Larry Kissell ( D ).

It is also served by The Stanly News and Press, a tri-weekly newspaper that also posts local news on its website, www. thesnaponline. com.

The Tabor City Tribune was a weekly newspaper established by W. Horace Carter ( a Stanly County native ) in 1946.

In 1950, Stanly County Memorial Hospital opened on land donated by Wiscassett Mills.

Albemarle and its environs are served by the Stanly News and Press, which was founded in 1880 and is currently owned by Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. ( CNHI ) The Weekly Post is a weekly newspaper focusing on local community events in the area.

Albemarle and Stanly County are served by two local radio stations, WSPC at 1010 AM with a News / Talk format and WZKY at 1580 AM with an Oldies music format.

Both stations are owned by Stanly Communications, Inc.

Also nearby are the communities of Locust and Stanfield, located in adjoining Stanly County, N. C., and only a few minutes ' drive from Midland by automobile.

Stanly, the son of John Wright Stanly, was born in New Bern, North Carolina, and educated by private tutors before attending Princeton University.

Part of the area is taken up by the racecourse, the gallops are part of the land purchased by Stanly Wootton in 1925 in oder that racehorses can be trained without interference.

It was named for John Stanly of New Bern ( 1774 – 1834 ), who served several terms in the North Carolina House of Commons and two terms ( 1801 – 1803, 1809 – 1811 ) in the United States House of Representatives.

However for cable television, it picks up Time Warner Cable of Albemarle, Stanly County which means that it only gets Charlotte television stations plus WFMY, the CBS affiliate in Greensboro.

Another important historic property is the Isaiah W. " Buck " Snuggs House, an antebellum home on Third Street then owned and now named for a Stanly County sheriff who lost his leg in the Civil War Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

The Stanly County Museum in Albemarle provides a focal point for regional historic research and preservation.

* Kellie Pickler, 2006 American Idol contestant and successful country recording artist, and three-time Stanly County AIDS Rodeo for Charity Champion ( 2002-2004 ).

Anson County granted a permit for Colson's Ordinary in the mid-18th century, at that time Stanly County was part of Anson.

Spaight died on September 6, 1802, following injuries sustained in a duel with John Stanly, the Federalist Congressman who had defeated him in the election of 1800 for the House of Representatives.

Armistead, known to friends as " Lo " ( for Lothario ), was born in the home of his great-grandfather, John Wright Stanly, in New Bern, North Carolina, son of Walker Keith Armistead and Elizabeth Stanly Armistead.

Stanly returned to the state house for several more terms, in 1812 – 1815, 1818 – 1819, and 1823 – 1825.

John Wright Stanly House in New Bern

New London is a town in Stanly County, North Carolina, United States.

In 1841 the part of Montgomery County west of the Pee Dee River became Stanly County.

Stanly County is a county in the state of North Carolina.

Stanly County is a member of the regional Centralina Council of Governments.

The longest waterway within the county is Rocky River, which rises in Iredell County and empties into the Pee Dee below Norwood in Stanly County.

* E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. and Mattie U. Russell, " Confederate Colonel And Cherokee Chief: The Life Of William Holland Thomas ", University of Tennessee Press, 1990

Albemarle is a small city and the county seat of Stanly County, North Carolina.

Shortly after Labour's hefty election defeat in June 1983, the almost 70-year-old Michael Foot resigned as leader and from the outset it was expected that Kinnock would succeed him.

In 1993, Mulroney resigned, rather than fight an election based on his record after almost nine years in power.

Shachtman and Burnham's tendency resigned from the International in early 1940, alongside almost 40 % of the SWP's members, many of whom became founder members of the Workers Party.

Forster resigned and the new Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, was murdered by Irish terrorists on 6 May 1882, leaving the ' Kilmainham Treaty ' almost useless.

In 1931, Burt resigned his position at the LCC and the LDTC after he was appointed Professor and Chair of Psychology at University College, London, taking over the position from Charles Spearman, thus ending his almost 20-year career as a school psychological practitioner.

The club was almost relegated to the Fourth Division in 1976, but a revival under the management of Jack Charlton, and the aid of coach Tony Toms, and after Charlton resigned in 1983, Howard Wilkinson, saw them return to the First Division in 1984.

Not only was " Sadat's " peace almost universally despised in Egypt and the Middle East ( indeed, Sadat's own prime minister resigned in protest ), the country was expelled from the Arab League ; every Arab country severed diplomatic ties with Egypt ; commerce and trade between Egypt and its neighbors became anemic ; there were massive bread riots ; Muslim fundamentalists became more vocal and more popular than ever ; and Sadat was forced to take the precaution of jailing nearly 1, 300 opposition politicians.

While most of the politicians resigned, Myers had to be expelled and Williams did not resign until the vote on his expulsion was almost due.

The same year he was also appointed conseiller d ' honneur of the Toulouse parlement, but his opposition to the abuses of the royal power, especially in the matter of taxation, brought him so much trouble that he resigned almost immediately.

On April 1, 1975, Lon Nol resigned and fled the country into exile: FANK almost immediately disintegrated.

However, when in March 2006 he resigned from office, the terminal was renamed Veterans Memorial Concourse in homage to Long Island's distinction as home to more military veterans than almost any other community in the United States.

Mulcahy served as Defence Minister in the new Free State government from January 1924 until March 1924, but resigned in protest because of the sacking of the Army Council after criticism by the Executive Council over the handling of the so-called Army Mutiny — when some Irish Army War of Independence officers almost revolted after Mulcahy demobilised many of them at the end of the Civil War.

Lange, who saw the vote as a choice between him and Douglas, resigned his office almost immediately afterwards.

After almost two years in office, Butler resigned under pressure, stating later that " cleaning up Philadelphia was worse than any battle I was ever in.

The number increased to 24 in 2006, when in an almost unprecedented development the then leader of the opposition, after a bitter and tumultuous internal battle within his own party, resigned the post and joined the governing party.

In 1949, Ness resigned his position almost overnight due to the political stress that he was facing in the Seattle area.

He was appointed organist at the Paris Temple in 1851, but resigned the post almost immediately, and apart from two concerts given in 1853, he withdrew, in spite of his early fame and technical accomplishment, into virtual seclusion for some twenty-five years.

Zatkovich was appointed governor of the province by Masaryk on April 20, 1920 and resigned almost a year later, on April 17, 1921, to return to his law practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

He resigned to avoid the official documentation of his role in this that would almost certainly have come from hearings by the United States House Committee on Ethics, as it did for the Keating Five.

In May 1984, Hock resigned his management role with Visa, retiring to spend almost ten years in relative isolation working a parcel of land on the Pacific coast to the west of Silicon Valley.

For example, Richard Nixon resigned from the office of President of the United States in 1974 following the Watergate scandal, when he was almost certain to have been impeached by the United States Congress.

Even after he resigned, they almost destroyed the whole house of his close associate, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson.

During his brief tenure of office ( it lasted only for one year ) he carried out several important measures, including that for the liberation of the press, which, while almost universally popular, complicated his relations with the directors at home to such an extent that he resigned the service of the Company in 1838.

This automatically incurred a nine-point penalty from the FA Premier League which came into effect on 17 March and resigned the team to almost certain relegation, which was mathematically confirmed on 10 April.