Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tod Robinson Caldwell (19 February 1818 11 July 1874) was a lawyer and the 41st Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1871 to 1874. He was born in Morganton, North Carolina. He lived in Burke County. Caldwell attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was a member of Dialectic Senate, became solicitor for Burke County, and was a member of the General Assembly. He succeeded to the office upon the impeachment and removal from office of Governor William Woods Holden. At the time, Caldwell was the first Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, an office created by the 1868 state constitution.