Joseph Riddick

Who was Joseph Riddick?

Joseph Riddick was a North Carolina politician who served as Speaker of the North Carolina Senate for 11 years from 1800 to 1804 and from 1806 to 1811. Only Bartlett Yancey and Marc Basnight have led the state Senate for a longer span of time. Riddick was also a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He attained the rank of General in the NC Militia.

He represented Gates County in the legislature over a period of 35 years, including service in the North Carolina House of Commons and in the North Carolina Senate. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic-Republican in 1810 and 1813.

He was a Presidential elector for the state of NC on 2 occasions.

His parents were Captain Joseph Riddick & Hannah Hunter Riddick

He Married Ann Stallings

Professor & Historian Isaac Samauel Harrell writes the following in "GATES COUNTY TO 1860"

Although no returns can be obtained further back than 1842, the county was in all probability anti-Federalist in the early days, for Joseph Riddick, who was in the assembly for 33 years, voted with the anti-Federalists.* He never wanted to spend any money.