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Thad Eure

1899–1993 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineHoward Lee’s campaigns for mayor, Congress, lieutenant governor and the state Senate, 1968–19921968–1992 · 24 events · Howard Lee came into Chapel Hill politics in 1968 through the McCarthy and Hawkins campaigns and the town's stop of the Poor People's Campaign. In May 1969 he defeated Roland Giduz to become Chapel Hill's first Black mayor, and he won second and third terms in 1971 and 1973. In 1972 he ran for Congress against Rep. L. H. Fountain while staying on as mayor, and in 1974 he said he was finishing his last year in office. He left the mayor's office in December 1975 and opened his campaign for lieutenant governor in Chapel Hill in April 1976. In 1984 he ran for Congress again, filing in the 4th District Democratic primary against Rep. Ike Andrews and opening an Orange County campaign office on West Franklin Street. In February 1990 a district Democratic committee elected him to a vacant state Senate seat, and in May 1992 he and Russell Walker narrowly won the 16th District Democratic primary.

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  1. The Orange Printshop of Chapel Hill prints the state's 1939 Public Laws in record time The Orange Printshop of Chapel Hill, managed by W. M. Pugh, printed the North Carolina Public Laws of 1939, and Secretary of State Thad Eure, presenting a copy to Governor Hoey, said it had beaten all records for delivery after the legislature adjourned. About twenty men and women worked night and day as the copy came in from Raleigh. People: Thad Eure, Clyde Roark Hoey Place: Orange Printshop, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. M. PughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 28, 1939, p. 1
  2. Piedmont Electric's members meet in Hillsboro as the co-op reaches 1,271 members About 600 members of the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation met at Hillsboro high school for the co-op's eighth annual meeting, heard Secretary of State Thad Eure and re-elected H. G. Laws, president since its start. The co-op then served 1,271 members over about 400 miles of line in six counties, had 150 more miles under construction and planned a home office at Tryon and East Boundary streets. People: Thad Eure, Hubert G. Laws Place: Hillsboro high school, Hillsboro · Also mentions: Piedmont Electric Membership CorporationSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 6, 1947, p. 1
  3. Hillsboro Speedway, Incorporated, files to dissolve On September 30, 1952, the stockholders of Hillsboro Speedway, Incorporated, filed their unanimous written consent with the Secretary of State to dissolve the corporation, whose principal office was in Hillsboro and whose agent was Bonner D. Sawyer. The preliminary certificate of dissolution was recorded in Orange County on October 3, 1952. People: Thad Eure, Bonner D. Sawyer Place: HillsboroThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 13, 1952, p. 7
  4. Orange Democrats raise about $900 at a dinner in the General Sherman's Confederate Room About 150 Democrats heard Secretary of State Thad Eure, Congressman Horace Kornegay, Insurance Commissioner Edwin Lanier and former Congressman Carl Durham at the county party's fund-raising buffet and dance in the Confederate Room of the General Sherman Restaurant. It netted about $900 for the state party's drive, against an Orange quota of $500. People: Thad Eure, Luther James Phipps, Carl T. Durham Place: General Sherman Restaurant, US 70 at Interstate 85 · Also named: Horace Kornegay, Edwin LanierSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 27, 1962, p. 2
  5. Former Chapel Hill mayor Howard Lee files to run for Congress in the 4th District Lee, mayor from 1969 to 1975 and later state secretary of Natural Resources and Community Development, filed for the May 8 Democratic primary against Rep. Ike Andrews after resigning on January 31 from the UNC School of Social Work faculty. When Raleigh developer John W. Winters Jr. also filed on February 6, Secretary of State Thad Eure said it was the first time in the state's congressional primaries that a white candidate faced two Black challengers. People: Howard N. Lee, Thad Eure Place: Chapel Hill; 4th Congressional District · Also named: Ike Andrews, John W. Winters Jr. · Also mentions: UNC School of Social WorkSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1984, p. 1

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Walter Reece Berryhill papers, 1919-1979.

Berryhill, W. Reece (Walter Reece), 1900-1979 · 1919

Walter Reece Berryhill (1900-1979) taught in the School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. His papers, 1919 to 1979, hold about 6,500 items in 10.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4174. The papers cover medical education and student medical care at the university. Correspondents include William C. Friday, Albert Coates, Luther Hodges and Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Eure, Thad, 1899-1993.

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