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==Notable people== {{Main|Category:People from Iredell County, North Carolina}} * [[Jeter Andrew Barker|Jeter Andrew Barke, Jr.]] (1924β2011), military veteran, contractor, philanthropist, politician, and founder of the old-west town Love Valley<ref name='Keever'/> * [[Hutchins Gordon Burton]] (aft. 1774β1836), 22nd [[governor of North Carolina]], died while visiting relatives in Iredell County<ref name='Keever'>{{cite book|author=Keever, Homer M.|title=Iredell Piedmont County, with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mildred Jenkins Miller|publisher=Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark|date=November 1976}}</ref> * [[Tom Dula|Thomas C. "Tom" Dula aka Dooley]] (1848β1868), former Confederate soldier, tried, convicted, and hanged for murder in Statesville<ref name='Keever'/> * [[Bobby Dale Earnhardt]] (b. 1987), NASCAR racing driver * [[James Hall (minister)|James Hall, D.D.]] (1744β1826), Presbyterian minister * [[Edward Harris (North Carolina judge)|Edward Harris]] (1763β1813), lawyer, politician and judge * [[Daisy Hendley Gold]] (1893β1975), author and journalist * [[James Iredell|James Iredell, Sr.]] (1750β1799), Iredell County namesake<ref name='Keever'/> * [[Homer Maxwell Keever]] (1905β1979), local teacher, historian and author<ref name='Keever'/> * [[Mussenden Ebenezer Matthews]] (1750β1830), revolutionary Lieutenant, Presbyterian minister, and politician<ref>{{cite book|title=Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers|author=Rev. William Henry Foote (1794β1869)|date=1846|url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/foote/foote.html}}, accessed: February 7, 2019</ref> * [[Anderson Mitchell]] (1800β1876), [[U.S. congressman]] from North Carolina<ref name='Keever'/> * [[Adlai Osborne]] (1744β1814), lawyer, public official, plantation owner, educational leader, Revolutionary War officer of the [[2nd Rowan County Regiment]] * [[Rufus Reid (planter)|Rufus Reid]] (1797β1854), planter and builder of Mount Mourne plantation, politician<ref name='Keever'/> * [[William Sharpe (North Carolina politician)|William Sharpe]] (1742β1818), [[American Revolutionary War]] patriot, lawyer, politician, author of the [[Fourth Creek Congregation]] map in 1773<ref name='Keever'/> * [[Adam Torrence]], Sr. (1732β1780), American Revolutionary War patriot killed at the [[Battle of Ramsour's Mill]], owner of Torrence Tavern where the [[Battle of Torrence's Tavern]] took place<ref name='Keever'/> * [[Wilfred D. Turner]] (1855β1933), 9th [[Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina|lieutenant governor of North Carolina]] * [[Zebulon Vance|Zebulon Baird Vance]] (1830β1894), 37th and 43rd [[governor of North Carolina]], lived and owned a home in Statesville (currently, a museum run by the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stoppingpoints.com/north-carolina/sights.cgi?marker=Vance+House&cnty=Iredell|title=Vance House|access-date=February 14, 2019}}</ref>
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