James Kenan (23 September 1740 – 1810) was a North Carolina militia general during the American Revolutionary War.
Biography[]
James Kenan was born in 1740, and he served as Sheriff of Duplin County, North Carolina in 1762 before leading a group of volunteers to Wilmington to oppose the Stamp Act and serving as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolutionary War. He went on to attend the 1788 and 1789 state constitutional convention, and he served nine terms in the State Senate before dying in 1810. His son Thomas S. Kenan later served in the US House of Representatives.