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Collier Cobb Jr. was elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1938, served seven terms and chaired the board from December 1942 to December 1952. When he left, the new board thanked him for his leadership, and he cited the county's school improvement program and the start of a new courthouse.
Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, December 4, 1952, page 1
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1893–1982 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Collier Cobb Jr. of Chapel Hill, interviewed in 1974 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. There is no summary of the conversation. Oral history cassette, Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
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Minutes and committee files of the University of North Carolina System Board of Trustees from 1932 to 1972, 1,937 items in 2.4 linear feet, University Archives collection 40002, with a master microfilm made by the university library in 1999. Topics include campus buildings and planning, the design and construction of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, and trustees including Gordon Gray and George Watts Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cobb, Collier, Jr., 1893-1982.
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