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1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. 1919
   Appointment, election or service · Orange County Alexander H. Graham becomes chair of the Orange County Democratic Party

   After his discharge from the Army as a captain in 1919, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham of Hillsborough was elected chair of the Orange County Democratic Party.

3. 1921
   Property or economic transaction · Hasell-Nash House, 116 West Queen Street, Hillsborough Alexander H. Graham acquires the Hasell-Nash House on West Queen Street

   After more than ninety years with the Nash family, the house passed in 1921 to lawyer Alexander H. Graham, later lieutenant governor and a grandson of Governor William A. Graham. The Grahams sold it on August 20, 1935, to Dr. H. W. Moore, who had it restored with architect Archie Royal Davis.

4. 1928
   Property or economic transaction · Montrose, 320 St. Mary's Road, Hillsborough Alexander H. Graham inherits Montrose on the death of his father, John W. Graham

   When John W. Graham died in 1928, Montrose passed to his son Alexander H. 'Sandy' Graham, later lieutenant governor.

5. 1930
   Appointment, election or service · UNC, Chapel Hill Alexander H. Graham chairs the committee that chooses Frank Porter Graham as UNC president

   Alexander H. Graham chaired the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as president of the University of North Carolina in 1930. His papers hold the committee correspondence from February to May 1930.

6. July 1930
   Construction or physical change · 118 North Churton Street, Hillsborough Alexander H. Graham builds a stone law office on Churton Street

   Graham, a former speaker of the state House, tore down the small frame building that held his law office and began a one-story building of local stone with a columned front for himself and his new partner Bonner Sawyer. Its cornerstone reads "Graham Building 1930."

7. April 26, 1940
   Naming or commemoration · Alexander Dickson House (Johnston headquarters), near the junction of NC 86 and the Durham road, outside Hillsborough Col. John K. Ross-Duggan holds 75th-anniversary exercises at the restored Johnston headquarters house

   Col. John K. Ross-Duggan, who with his wife had restored the Dickson house outside Hillsborough, marked the 75th anniversary of the war's end there with afternoon exercises and a special postal cachet showing the house. A. H. Graham and W. B. Umstead of Durham were to speak.

8. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

9. 1948
   Construction or physical change · Montrose, 320 St. Mary's Road, Hillsborough Lt. Gov. Alexander Graham has Watts Carr remodel Montrose as a Colonial Revival house

   In 1948 Lt. Gov. Alexander Graham and his wife hired Durham architect Watts Carr to turn the Victorian house at Montrose into a Colonial Revival one, with a high hipped roof, side wings and a Georgian Revival entrance. Carr helped work in mantels, doors and trim from old Orange County houses, including double doors from the Burwell School.

10. April 4, 1961
    Law, policy or court · White Cross School, north side of NC 54 west of SR 1952, White Cross The school board's lawyer advises closing White Cross School rather than fight the case

    A. H. Graham, attorney for the county board, told it the transfer fight could not be won and recommended shutting White Cross School instead.

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