Montfort Stokes
Montfort Stokes was a
native of Wilkes county, North Carolina. He was born in
1760. He was in the American Navy during the Revolutionary
War.
He held a number of
positions of trust and honor in his native state, and was a United
States senator for one term, 1817 - 23. In 1830-31 he was
Governor of North Carolina, which office he resigned to accept an
appointment as commissioner to superintend the removal of the Cherokee
Indians west of the Mississippi.
He was then appointed
Indian Agent by President Jackson, a position he continued to hold
until his death, which occurred at Fort Gibson, November 4,
1842.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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