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^•orks, which numl>er more tlian one Iniiulred. are: Tkv Dudley Ueiualmjiis (lb4y); J'ictiinx i>f Life in Enylaml and Anurica (1851) ; Ilialury of the First General Council of Mce (1860); Illustrated Archaoloijicul and Uenealo(jH-al Collections (18G1); Historical Sketc/usof Toirns in Plymouth <ind JUtrn- stalile Counties, JIass. (1801) ; Social attd I'ldilical Asitects ofEnijlandandthe Continent (1802) ; Ojllccrs of Our Union Army and Xary (1802); History <f the Dudliy Family (1880); Memorial of the Jieuniou of tite Ihscendants of Gov. Thomas Dudley (1892); History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in Auori'" (1SJ1C).

DUDLEY, Edward Bishop, -.-overnor of North Carolina, was Ixirii in Onslow county, N.C., Dec. lo, 1787. He .served in the lower house of the BUite legislatui-e m 1811, 1812, 1813, 1816, 1817 and 18:34. and in the state senate in 1814. He was a representative in the 21st congi-ess, 1829-31, and is recorded as having given as a reason for de- clining a re-election that congress was no place for an honest man. The new state constitution of ISS.j gave to the people tlie power of electing the governor and Mr. Dudley was the first gov- ernor so elected. He was re-elected in 1839, and was succeeded in 1841 by John Motley Morehead. He died in Wilmington, X.C, Oct. 30, 1855.

DUDLEY, Irving Bedell, diplomatist, was born in JelTerson, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1861. He was giaduiited from Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, in 1882, and from the law department of Colum- bian university, Washington, D.C., in 1885. He began to practise law in San Diego, Cal., in 1888, and was city judge of San Diego for two terms. H ^ was a member of the Republican state execu- tive conmiittee of California in 1896 and was appointed by President McKinley United States minister to Peru in Jime, 1897.

DUDLEY, James Benson, educator, was born a slave in Wilmington, N.C., Nov. 3, 1859; son of John Bishop and Annie (Hatch) Dudley. His fatiier, a skilled mechanic, was emancii)ated and given r>ermission to go to the free .states, but declined the offer, prefen-ing to remain with his Blave vriie and son. The son was sent to private tutors, tlien to the public schools of his native city, and later attended the Institute for colored youths, Philadelphia, Pa., and Shaw university, Rjileigh, N.C. His vacations during his school life were 8j)ent in learning the carjjenter's trade. He tauglit in the i>ublic .schools of his own coimty; was princi[>iil of the Peabody gi-aded school of Wilmington, N.C, 188:3-90, and president of the Agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race, at Greensboro, N.C, from 1896. The degree of A.M. wa,s conferred upon him in 1898 by Livingstone college. He was state organi- zer for Chautauqua, and editor of the Wilmington Chronicle, and became one of the literary leaders

of the negro race. He was chairman of the com- mittee on foreign corre.spondence for the Masonic fraternity of North Carolina, organizer of the People's perpetiuil and of the Metroijolitan build- ing and loan associations, a representative of the Republican party in various county qnd state conventions anil in 1890 a delegate to the Republi- can national convention.

DUDLEY, Joseph, governor of Massachusetts, was born at Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 23, 1047; son of Governor Thomas and Catharine (Dighton) Hackburne Dudley. He was graduated from Harvard in 1665, taking his second degree in 1668. He was made freeman in 1672; was deputy, 1673- 75; was engaged in the battle with the Narra- gansetts in 1675, and was a commissioner with Edward Hutchinson and others who made the treaty with the Indians, July 15, 1675. He Avas an assistant, 1676-85, and in 1682 was sent as an agent to England to obtain a renewal of the old charter, but was unsuccessful in his quest. In 1685 he was commissioned ijresident of the part of New England included in Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Maine and Kings Province. In December, 1686, he was placed at the head of the council of Sir Edmund Andros, the newly appointed governor of New England. When the superior court was established in March. 1687, he was made chief justice and held the office for a year, when he was superseded by John Palmer and forced to accept a subordinate jjlace on the bench. In 1689 he went a second time to Eng- land, having been arrested with Andros and sent thither with him. In 1690 he returned, having been appointed chief justice of New York. In 1693 he went a third time to England and re- ceived a commission from King William as lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Wight, where Jie continued eight years. He was a member of the House of commons for the borough of Newton up to the time of the death of King William. He received from King William his commission as governor of the province of ]\Iassachusetts which was renevved by Queen Anne, and he arrived in Bo.ston, June 11, 1702, and continued in the gov- ernment till November, 1715. He was man-ied in 1669 to Rebecca, daughter of Edward Tyng, Esq., an early magistrate of Massachusetts, and of their thirteen children, seven lived to maturity. He died in Roxbury, :\rass., April 2, 1720.

DUDLEY, Lewis Joel, educator, was born in Guilford, Conn., Nov. 11, 1815; son of Joel and Harriet (Griswold), gi-andson of Abraham and Deborah (Cruttenden), great-grandson of Caleb and Hannah (Stone), great ^ grandson of Caleb and Elizabeth (Buck), great* gi-andson of Joseph and Ann (Robinson), and greaf grandson of William and Jane (Lutman) Dudley of Surrey, England, who sailed from London, May 20, 1639,