Talk:Gabriel Holmes

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Holmes was nonpartisan?[edit]

I would like to have some documentation on the assertion that Holmes was not affiliated with any party. He was elected Governor as a Democratic Republican and elected to the U.S. House as a Jacksonian. In his first race for U.S. House, he defeated Charles Hooks, the incumbent who favored Crawford in the 1825 contingent election. Historians in such reference works as North Carolina Government and the North Carolina Manual provide these party labels. In the newspaper the Eastern Argus in Maryland, an article dated 9/4/1827 has Holmes indicated as one of nine Jackson supporters elected to the U.S. House from NC in the 1827 election. This seems to be a fairly tight case for his identity with political parties, but I am willing to hear the other side. Chronicler3 (talk) 17:37, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]