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John Harvey When the first governor Tryon, then his sucessor, Josiah Martin, tried to shut down the Assembly, speaker John Harvey continued to correspond with the protesters in the other colonies. Harvey, who was five times elected speaker of the Assemebly, stood up to the royal governors for the interestes of North Carolinians. In 1774, Governor Martin refused to call an assembly together to eclect representives to attend a Continental Congress.

Thomas Jefferson Jefferson served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was also elected Governor of Virginia during the war. His term as governor was criticised by many of his political enemies. Use the Yahoo search box and put "Jefferson during the American Revolution" and you will get several sites with information about war years and Jefferson.

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