McLendon, Lennox Polk, 1890-1968.

• 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.)