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Locke Craig graduated from the university at Chapel Hill at nineteen, the youngest graduate it had yet had, then briefly taught chemistry there and taught at a private school in Chapel Hill. He was governor of North Carolina from 1913 to 1917.
Source: NCpedia: Craig, Locke
1860–1925 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Papers of Locke Craig, Asheville lawyer who served in the North Carolina legislature from 1898 to 1903 and as governor from 1913 to 1917. The 126 items, beginning in 1880, include personal letters, political and religious speeches, an address on Freemasonry, and a chemistry notebook he kept as a University of North Carolina student. Kemp P. Battle, Henry G. Connor and Woodrow Wilson are among the names that appear.
Interviews recorded in spring 1968 with Martha Hawkins Bailey Haywood, Mrs. Marshall DeLancey Haywood of Raleigh, by the Wakefield Junior Historian Club for an oral history project. One reel-to-reel tape, with a CD version and transcripts. Her memories range over Raleigh houses, streets, families and institutions; Chapel Hill and the university are mentioned. State Archives of North Carolina, TR.40.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Craig, Locke, 1860-1925.
Josephus Daniels, Governor Locke Craig and Edward Kidder Graham stand with other men in front of Alumni Hall at the University of North Carolina, some in academic robes, on a real photo postcard from about 1912 to 1915. Graham became president of the university in 1914.
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