(1749–1800), U.S. political leader, born in Bertie County, N.C.; appointed governor of the “Territory South of the River Ohio” by President Washington 1790; signed U.S. Constitution for North Carolina; made his headquarters in Tennessee, elected to U.S. Senate; expelled from Senate because of his part in conspiracy to seize Spanish territory in North America for England; his was first impeachment trial ever brought before U.S. Senate.