Governor Richard Caswell (image courtesy NC Dept. of Archives and History)
Richard Caswell was the governor of the state of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1787. A laywer and surveyor by training, he served as the state's comptroller for the three years between his two gubernatorial terms. Caswell was also one of North Carolina's delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention of 1787.
