Thomas Michael Holt

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American politician (1831-1896)

United States PoliticiansLived 1831 to 1896 · aged 64

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Thomas Michael Holt was an American industrialist who served as the 47th governor of North Carolina from 1891 to 1893.

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Plaque to Governor Holt on the Major Joseph Winston monument, commemorating Holt's role in establishing Guilford Battle Ground Company and his gift of the Winston monument

Alamance Cotton Factory, built by Edwin M. Holt, 1837, first manufacturer of colored cotton fabrics in the South on power looms

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Thomas Michael Holt was an American industrialist who served as the 47th governor of North Carolina from 1891 to 1893. Formerly a North Carolina State Senator and Speaker of the House of the North Carolina General Assembly, Holt was instrumental in the founding of North Carolina State University, as well as in establishing several railroads within the state and the state's department of agriculture. Holt was also responsible for the technology behind the family's Holt Mills "Alamance Plaids", the first colored cotton goods produced in the South - a development that revolutionized the Southern textile industry.

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