McLendon, Lennox Polk, 1890-1968.

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Dates:
Birth 1890
Death 1968

Biographical notes:

1890 Lennox Polk McLendon born in Wadesboro, N.C., to Walter J. McLendon and Sarah Josephine Polk McLendon 1910 Received Bachelor's degree in Agriculture from North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C. 1912 Received Bachelor's degree in Laws from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 1913 1914 Mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., and graduate manager of athletics at the University of North Carolina. 1914 1933 Practiced law in Durham, N.C.; was a senior partner at McLendon and Hedrick, 1916-1933 1916 First lieutenant, United States Army, with General John J. Pershing in Mexico. 1916 Elected to North Carolina General Assembly from Durham County. 1917 Married Mary Lily Aycock, daughter of Charles Brantley Aycock and Cora Woodard Aycock. Their children were Mary Louise, Lennox Polk Junior, Charles Aycock, William Woodard, and John Aycock. 1918 1919 Captain, and later major, Battery C, 113th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Force, France 1921 1925 Solicitor, 10th Judicial District 1931 Special prosecutor for the State of North Carolina in the prosecution of Colonel Luke Lea, banker, newspaper publisher, and former United States senator from Tennessee, for bank fraud, Asheville, N.C. 1932 Manager, J. C. B. Ehringhaus's gubernatorial campaign 1932 1936 Chairman, State Board of Elections 1933 1968 Practiced law in Greensboro, N.C, 1939 1955 Member, Board of Trustees, Consolidated University of North Carolina 1949 1956 President, Medical Foundation of North Carolina 1955 1962 Served on State Board for Higher Education; vice-chairman, 1955-1959; chairman, 1959-1962 1961 1962 Member, Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School (Carlyle Commission) 1963 1964 Chief Counsel for United States Senate Rules Committee investigation of Bobby Baker 1968 Died, Greensboro, N.C.

From the guide to the Lennox Polk McLendon Papers, ., 1792; 1813; 1875-1968, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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  • Education, Higher
  • Election law
  • Elections
  • Governmental investigations
  • Governors
  • Lawyers
  • Legislative hearings
  • Segregation in higher education

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  • North Carolina (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • North Carolina (as recorded)

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