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Charles Brantley Aycock (November 1, 1859 – April 4, 1912) was the 50th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. After starting his career as a lawyer and teacher, he became active in the Democratic Party during the party's Solid South period, and made his reputation as a prominent segregationist .
No North Carolina governor, with the possible exception of Zebulon B. Vance, has been as venerated and memorialized as Charles Brantley Aycock (1859-1912), with whose term in 1901 the Democratic Party inaugurated a seventy-two year hold on the state’s highest elected position.
Charles Brantley Aycock was born on November 1, 1859 in northern Wayne County, near Fremont (then called Nahunta). He was the youngest of ten children, and his parents were from prominent families. His mother, Serena Hooks Aycock, had relatives with large-scale plantations.
Charles Brantley Aycock (November 1, 1859 – April 4, 1912), governor of North Carolina, was born on a farm near Fremont in the broad, flat valley of the Neuse River.
Charles Brantley Aycock (1859–1912), born in Wayne County, was a lawyer in Goldsboro and as a young man served as superintendent of his county’s schools. In the 1890s he served as United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
CHARLES B. AYCOCK, the fiftieth governor of North Carolina, was born near Fremont, North Carolina on November 1, 1859. His education was attained at the Wilson Collegiate Institute, at the Kinston Collegiate Institute, and at the University of North Carolina, where he earned a Ph.B degree in 1880.
Charles Brantley Aycock (1 November 1859 -- 4 April 1912) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905.
