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Robert Worth Bingham

Robert Worth Bingham, son of the Bingham School headmaster Robert Bingham, studied at the University of North Carolina from 1888 to 1891, winning its Representative Medal in 1890, and returned in 1896 to study law. In 1899 he endowed the university's Robert Worth Bingham prize in debate. He was later a Louisville newspaper publisher and U.S. ambassador.

Source: NCpedia: Bingham, Robert Worth

1871–1937 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Robert Worth Bingham, 1916
Robert Worth Bingham, 1916

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  1. Robert Worth Bingham wins the university's Representative Medal As a University of North Carolina student, Robert Worth Bingham won the Representative Medal in 1890 for his oration "Manifest Destiny and Manifest Duty." Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Bingham, Robert Worth
  2. Robert Worth Bingham endows a debate prize at the university Robert Worth Bingham, a UNC alumnus practicing law in Louisville, endowed the university's Robert Worth Bingham prize in debate. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Bingham, Robert Worth
  3. Trustees name the first five Kenan professors The trustees adopted President Edward Kidder Graham's recommendations for the new Kenan professorships, funded under the will of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham. Venable was named Kenan Professor of Chemistry, with H. V. Wilson, Edwin Greenlaw, William MacNider and William Cain. People: Francis Preston Venable, Edward Kidder Graham, H. V. Wilson, Robert Worth Bingham, Edwin Greenlaw, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William MacNider, William Cain, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler BinghamSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Chronological List of Events
  4. The university names Bingham Hall for Robert Bingham In 1929 the university named Bingham Hall on its Chapel Hill campus for Robert Bingham, class of 1857, an alumnus who often spoke at campus events and helped reopen the university in 1875. People: Robert Bingham, Robert Worth Bingham Place: Chapel Hill, Bingham HallSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert

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Memorial Hall : its tablets and memories : acceptance of tablets memorializing Col. Robert Bingham, Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham and Senator Matt W. Ransom

Winston, Robert W. (Robert Watson), 1860-1944 · 1939

Robert W. Winston's 1939 address on Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina and the memorial tablets set in its walls, given when tablets honoring Colonel Robert Bingham, Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham and Senator Matt W. Ransom were accepted. Printed at Chapel Hill, it records how those tablets came to be placed in the hall.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Bingham, Robert Worth, 1871-1937.

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Worth family papers,

Worth (Family) · 1844

Worth family papers, about 694 items beginning in 1844: letters, business papers and other material on family affairs, opposition to secession, North Carolina politics, fertilizer and textile businesses, Zebulon B. Vance, and federal patronage early in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Correspondents and subjects include Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Edwin A. Alderman, George T. Winston, Josephus Daniels and Robert Bingham of the Bingham School, with UNC students among them.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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  • Bingham Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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Picture: Robert Worth Bingham, 1916. Public domain. Press Reference Book of Prominent Kentuckians, 1916, page 85; via Wikimedia Commons

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