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Broughton, J. Melville (Joseph Melville), 1888-1949

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Joseph Melville Broughton Jr. (1888–1949) was the 60th Governor of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945. He later briefly served as a United States Senator from January 3, 1949 until his death in office approximately two months later. Broughton graduated from Wake Forest College, in 1910 and taught school in Bunn, North Carolina, (1910-1912). He earned a law degree from Harvard University, in 1913, was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced to practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a memb...

Watson, Van S.

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Van Sharpe Watson (1891-1943) was a resident of Rocky Mount, N.C., and was active in both farming and politics. Watson was alderman (1925-1929) and mayor (1929-1931) for the city of Rocky Mount, N.C., and state representative (1933) and state senator (1941, 1943) from Nash County to the North Carolina General Assembly. From the description of Van S. Watson papers, 1930-1943 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 276760978 ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service

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Organized home demonstration work among rural women in North Carolina started when I. O. Schaub, director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, appointed Jane S. McKimmon State Home Demonstration Agent in 1911. A pioneer in home demonstration work, McKimmon headed the program until 1937. Ruth Current succeeded her and directed the program for three decades afterward. In 1958, Current was named assistant director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extensio...

Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972

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