SPAIGHT, RICHARD DOBBS
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(1758-1802), was a delegate from North Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1784, and to the Convention of 1787, and was a signer of the Constitution. He was Governor of North Carolina in 1792, and served in the U.S. Congress as a Democrat from 1798 to 1801.
By John Franklin Jameson
