Governors of North Carolina

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Jim Hunt, William Hawkins, Terry Sanford, Mike Easley, Bev Perdue, William Richardson Davie, Samuel Johnston, List of Governors of North Carolina, William Woods Holden, Alfred Moore Scales, Zebulon Baird Vance, Thomas Michael Holt, Edward Bishop Dudley, William Alexander Graham, Oliver Max Gardner, Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Charles Brantley Aycock, Hutchins Gordon Burton, Jonathan Worth, John Branch, Richard Dobbs Spaight, James G. Martin, Daniel Lindsay Russell, W. Kerr Scott, Montfort Stokes, David Stone, Jesse Franklin, Alexander Martin, Robert W. Scott, William B. Umstead, David Settle Reid, David Lowry Swain, James Iredell, Jr., Benjamin Smith, Thomas Burke, Luther H. Hodges, Richard Caswell, James Turner, William Walton Kitchin, Thomas Bragg, Robert Broadnax Glenn, Abner Nash, Cameron A. Morrison, Benjamin Williams, James Holshouser, John Owen, J. Melville Broughton, Samuel Ashe, Henry Toole Clark, John Motley Morehead, Locke Craig, Daniel Gould Fowle, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., R. Gregg Cherry, John C. B. Ehringhaus, Curtis Hooks Brogden, Elias Carr, William Miller, Nathaniel Alexander, Dan K. Moore, Angus Wilton McLean, James L. Robinson, Warren Winslow, Tod Robinson Caldwell, Clyde R. Hoey, John Willis Ellis, Charles Manly, Gabriel Holmes, Thomas Walter Bickett. Excerpt: James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 - April 18, 1998) was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the 65th Governor of North Carolina (1961-1965), a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate in the 1970s and a U.S. Senator (1986-1993). Sanford was a strong proponent of public education and introduced a number of reforms and new programs in North Carolina's schools and institutions of higher education as the state's governor, increasing funding for education and establishing the North Carolina Fund. From 1969 to 1985, Sanford was President of Duke University. An Eagle Scout as a youth, Sanford became an FBI agent after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1939. During World War II, he saw combat in the European Theatre and received a battlefield commission. Following his return to civilian life after World War II, Sanford attended and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law and began a legal career in the late 1940s, soon becoming involved in politics. A lifelong Democrat, he was noted for his progressive leadership in civil rights and education; although his opponents criticized him as a "tax-and-spend" liberal, Sanford is remembered as a major public figure of the South after World War II. Sanford was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina, in 1917 to Cecil and Elizabeth Sanford. He became an Eagle Scout in Laurinburg's Troop 20 of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Shortly before he died, Sanford related his Scouting experience to journalist David Gergen and said that it "probably saved my life in the war. Boys who had been Scouts or had been in the CCC knew how to look after themselves in the woods. ... What I learned in Scouts sustained me all my life; it helped me make decisions about what was best." The BSA recognized him with their Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. Sanford graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1939 and then s