Alexander H. Graham Papers (#4998) 1879-1939

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Alexander H. Graham Papers (#4998) 1879-1939

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Alexander H. Graham of Hillsborough, N.C., began his public career in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1921, becoming speaker in 1929. He chaired the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as president of the University of North Carolina in 1930. He was lieutenant governor, 1933-1937, and head of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, 1945-1949 and 1953-1957. The collection includes correspondence and related papers, 1920-1939, of Alexander H. Graham and ledgers, 1879-1912, of his father, John Washington Graham. Correspondence, 1920-1939, is chiefly between Alexander H. Graham and relatives in Raleigh, N.C., focusing on taxes, property, and finances. Graham's interest in roads can be seen in his efforts to develop the streets around property held by his sister-in-law. Correspondence, February 1930-May 1930, relates to Graham's activities as chair of the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as president of University of North Carolina in 1930. Correspondence, 1928-1930, concerns North Carolina political campaigns. There are also constituent letters from Graham's tenure in the North Carolina House of Representatives and a signed affidavit from Graham's swearing in as executive counsel. One ledger contains two accounts for which Graham's father, John Washington Graham, was trustee: the Sinking Fund of the North Carolina Railroad Company, 1879-1889; and an account relating to John Washington Graham's first wife, Rebecca Beneham Cameron Anderson Graham, and to the estate of her father, Paul C. Cameron, 1891-1910. The other ledger contains financial information for two accounts of John Washington Graham as guardian for his children, 1895-1912.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6626833

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Mrs. Robert F. Smallwood

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Graham, Alexander H., 1890-1977

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Alexander H. Graham of Hillsborough, N.C., began his public career in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1921, becoming speaker in 1929. He chaired the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as president of the University of North Carolina in 1930. He was lieutenant governor, 1933-1937, and head of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, 1945-1949 and 1953-1957. From the description of Alexander H. Graham papers, 1879-1939. WorldCat record id: 44696419 ...

Graham, John W. (John Washington), 1838-1928

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John Washington Graham of Hillsborough, N.C., was the son of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) and Susannah Sarah Washington Graham (1816-1890). He served as captain and major in the 56th North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. After the war, he was Orange County, N.C., solicitor, 1866-1868; delegate to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868; five-time state senator, 1868-1872, 1876, 1907-1908, 1911; railroad trustee; and lawyer. From the description o...

Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972

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President of the University of North Carolina; U.S. senator for North Carolina. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1943-1950. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122619645 Educator, government official. From the description of Reminiscences of Frank Porter Graham : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376749 University president. From the...

North Carolina House of Representatives

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Alexander H. Graham

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Annie C. Graham

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Graham, William A. (William Alexander), 1804-1875

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Governor of and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Letter of William A. Graham, 1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450527 William Alexander Graham (September 5, 1804 - August 11, 1875) was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. He was also a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1852. From the descripti...

Annie Graham Smallwood

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Rebecca Beneham Cameron Anderson Graham

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Cameron, Paul C. (Paul Carrington), 1808-1891

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Paul C. Cameron was born in Stagville, NC. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1823 to 1825. At which point, he entered the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (forerunner to Norwich University), and graduated in 1828. He then attended Trinity College from 1828 to 1829. Paul Cameron owned extensive plantations in North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi. He was also active in railroad construction, banking, cotton manufacture and politics. Cameron was a liberal suppor...

Joseph Graham

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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 Railroad Company

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Incorporated in North Carolina in 1849 to construct a railroad from Charlotte, N.C., to connect with the line of Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad; line opened from Goldsboro to Charlotte, N.C. (223 miles), in 1856; leased to Richmond and Danville Railroad Company (1871-1894); operated by Southern Railway Company after 1894. From the description of Records, 1849-1891. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28421010 ...