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Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham

Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham (1890–1977) was born in Hillsborough, a grandson of Governor William A. Graham. He was elected chair of the Orange County Democratic Party in 1919, chaired the committee that hired Frank Porter Graham as UNC president in 1930, and was lieutenant governor from 1933 to 1937.

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Life and Orange County connections

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StorylineThe Central Highway route fight, 1921–19221921–1922 · 8 events · The route of the Central Highway, the trunk road of the state network paid for by the 1921 Highway Act that Harriet Morehead Berry of Hillsborough championed, set off a fight in Orange County. In August 1921 the county commissioners weighed eastern and western 'Frog Pond' routes, and eastern Chapel Hill township residents demanded County Attorney A. H. Graham's discharge. In November a Hillsborough mass meeting resolved to fight the State Highway Commission's plan to carry the highway north of the courthouse. A Hillsborough group protested in Raleigh on March 1, 1922, Commissioner John Sprunt Hill was burned in effigy the next day, and the town board vowed to keep fighting in the state courts. StorylineThe women’s legislative program, 19271927 · 3 events · In 1927 the Chapel Hill Community Club urged five bills backed by women's organizations and then asked Orange County's legislators where they stood. The club's legislative committee asked the state women's lobby how the county's legislators had voted on measures including child labor and the Efland school for delinquent Black girls, and in March voted to write each legislator for a statement of his position. Only the child labor bill passed, in modified form, and the legislature added $2,000 for the Efland home instead of taking it over. Senators J. Clyde Ray and William B. Horton replied; Representative A. H. Graham did not answer, the Weekly reported. StorylineOrange County’s elections of 1936, 1938 and 19401936–1940 · 10 events · In the 1936 Democratic primary for governor Orange County stood by its native son, A. H. (Sandy) Graham, giving him 2,754 votes to 817 for Ralph McDonald and 230 for Clyde Hoey. In the July runoff the county went for Hoey, and B. J. Howard of Chapel Hill won the runoff for the state House. In 1938 Carl T. Durham became the Democratic nominee for Congress, the county executive committee voted 7 to 6 for Collier Cobb Jr. to take Durham's place on the commissioners ticket, and every Democrat on the county ticket won by a wide margin. In 1940 three Chapel Hill candidates entered the Democratic primary for the House, and the election board chose to re-list voters. StorylineSelective service in Orange County, 1940–19461940–1946 · 17 events · Orange County's draft board, named by Governor Clyde Hoey in October 1940, had drafted 3,110 men by the fall of 1945. On October 16, 1940 more than 3,800 men registered across the county, 368 of them at Chapel Hill's Black Elks Lodge. Nine volunteers more than filled the county's 1940 call, and in December three of them went to Fort Bragg, the men the Weekly called the county's first soldiers in the new draft. In April 1944, after new rules ended many farm deferments, the board sent 302 men for preinduction examinations, its largest group yet. In January 1946 Governor R. Gregg Cherry honored Garland O. Reitzel, A. C. Pickard and S. W. Hughes for their service. StorylineVeterans’ organizations in Orange County, 1943–19581943–1958 · 29 events · Between 1943 and 1958 Orange County's veterans organized posts in each town, and Black veterans formed their own, in Chapel Hill in 1944 and in Hillsboro in 1947. Chapel Hill's American Legion post drew many protests in 1943 for a traveling carnival with a strip act and gambling games, and editor Louis Graves, a Legion member, criticized the post. Hillsborough veterans organized Post No. 85 in 1944. After the war came a Carrboro Legion post, the county's first two Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, a Marine Corps League post and a county veterans' service office. In 1955 Chapel Hill's Paul Robertson became the Legion's state commander, and in 1958 fire gutted Hillsboro's Legion hut, which reopened in 1959. StorylineInterstate 85 comes to northern Orange County, 1955–19621955–1962 · 22 events · Rebuilding US 70 to interstate standards through northern Orange County meant a road that would bypass Efland, Hillsboro and University Station, and at a 1957 hearing landowners on the new route and businesses on old Highway 70 protested. In 1956 the Highway Commission had decided to rebuild the road as a limited-access highway, with the new federal road act paying 90 percent, and federal officials approved a route south of Hillsboro. Contracts for the stretch south of Hillsboro were let in November 1957. Near the new Interstate 85 James Freeland built a motel, the General Sherman Restaurant and the county's fourth ABC store, a government liquor store, in 1960 and 1961, and in 1962 the Dixie Motor Inn.
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StorylineWhite Cross School: merger votes, Black families’ transfers and the closing, 1958–19611958–1961 · 18 events · After White Cross voters rejected joining the Chapel Hill school unit, the area's Black pupils rode to Hillsboro, and after Black parents applied to the all-white White Cross School the county board closed it. The merger lost in a May 1958 election with Carrboro, 916 to 565, and White Cross rejected it again, 116 to 110, in August 1959; 70 of its Black pupils began riding to Central School in Hillsboro, 15 miles or more from home. A third vote failed in 1960. In January 1961 parents of 23 Black children applied to White Cross School. The county board refused, and on May 1 voted to close the school and move its 75 white pupils to Cameron Park School.

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  1. 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. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · UNC Libraries: Alexander H. Graham Papers (#4998), finding aid
  2. 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. People: Archie Royal Davis Place: Hasell-Nash House, 116 West Queen Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Annie S. Nash, H. W. Moore, William A. GrahamSearch the index · National Register: Hazel-Nash House nomination (1971), pdf p. 3 · Also: Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014)
  3. County commissioners take up the fight over the route of the Chapel Hill to Hillsboro hard-surfaced road The county commissioners took up the location of the hard-surfaced road from Chapel Hill to Hillsboro as a special order on Monday, August 1, before a full delegation for an eastern route, argued for by Solicitor S. M. Gattis, against backers of the western 'Frog Pond' route by Harvey Clark's and the Big Meadows to Carrboro. On the advice of County Attorney A. H. Graham the board referred the matter to J. S. Hill and withdrew its promise of a sand-clay road on the eastern route; the account, signed 'Observer,' says the eastern side meant to take its case to the State Highway Commission. People: Samuel Mallett Gattis, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John Sprunt Hill Place: Court house, HillsboroSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 4, 1921, p. 1
  4. Eastern Chapel Hill township residents meet at Blackwood school and denounce the commissioners over the road Residents of the eastern section of Chapel Hill township met at the Blackwood school house on Friday night, August 5, named a committee of five to carry on their fight over the hard-surfaced road route, and pledged to share its costs. By a rising vote they adopted a resolution, sent to commissioners' chairman Ralph Ward, denouncing the board and County Attorney A. H. Graham, demanding Graham's discharge and protesting his pay as unconstitutional because he held three offices. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Ralph H. Ward Place: Blackwood school house, Chapel Hill townshipSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 11, 1921, p. 1
  5. County commissioners call a county-wide school tax election and vote against the tax Bound by law to act on the board of education's petition, the county commissioners called a July 3 election on a county-wide school tax of up to 25 cents on $100, meant to give country schools the advantages of the town schools, and at the same meeting adopted a resolution disapproving it. Representative A. H. Graham argued that voters had not had time to learn the facts. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Ralph H. Ward Place: Courthouse, HillsboroThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1923, p. 1
  6. Bingham township citizens protest the White Cross school site before the county board A large crowd from Bingham township came to the court house in Hillsboro to ask the county board of education to undo its April choice of Lueco Lloyd's donated land at White Cross for the new township school and build instead on the county's lot about three-quarters of a mile west. A. H. Graham spoke for the protesters, whose petition carried more than 100 names and 13 of the district's 14 school committeemen; the board heard Harmon McIver and Lloyd in closed session and made no decision. People: Lueco Lloyd, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Harmon McIverThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1924, p. 1
  7. Democrats carry Orange County, sending A. H. Graham to the state House In the November election Orange County went Democratic: A. H. (Sandy) Graham of Hillsborough led A. M. Mincey for the House about 1,623 to 897, Sheriff L. B. Lloyd led Otis M. Crawford 1,706 to 834, and Democrats J. D. Webb, John E. Hawkins and R. H. Ward won the county commissioners' seats. Republican James Sparrow ran ahead of his ticket, about 211 votes behind Ward, and ran third in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Junius D. Webb, Ralph H. Ward Place: Orange County · Also named: L. B. Lloyd, John E. Hawkins, James SparrowSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1924, p. 1
  8. Work begins on a new Orange County jail across the street from the Hillsborough courthouse Work began on a new county jail just east of the courthouse and across the street, a brick building of Colonial design with a columned porch, jailer's quarters in front and cells behind, with white and Black, men and women, and juveniles kept apart. The cost with land and equipment was put at about $65,000, to be met by bonds, and the old jail and the small town hall were to be torn down. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John Lee Foister Place: East of the courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1925, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill Community Club women question local legislators on the women's bills The Community Club's legislative committee asked the state women's lobby how Orange County's legislators had voted on measures backed by women's organizations, including the Australian ballot, child labor and the Efland school for Black girls, and on March 28, 1927 voted to write each legislator for a statement of his position. Of the five bills club members had urged in January, only the child labor bill passed, in modified form. The committee's letter drew replies from Senators J. Clyde Ray and William B. Horton, read at its meeting in late November; Representative A. H. Graham did not answer, the Weekly reported. People: William B. (William Banks) Horton, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: J. Clyde Ray · Also mentions: Efland schoolSearch the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: On Legislators' Trail (April 1, 1927) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 2, 1927, p. 4
  10. 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. People: John W. Graham Place: Montrose, 320 St. Mary's Road, HillsboroughSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 320 St. Mary's Road, Montrose · Also: UNC Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward, Graham Residence Hall
  11. Orange County Democratic convention votes for Al Smith over Cordell Hull Meeting in Hillsboro on June 9, 1928, the Orange County Democratic convention took a preference vote of 45 for Gov. Alfred E. Smith and 26 for Cordell Hull, and told its delegates to split the county's 13 votes at the state convention 8 1/4 for Smith and 4 3/4 for Hull. The county stood apart from the Fifth District, where Hull men took all four Houston delegates. People: Clarence Dupre Jones, Samuel Mallett Gattis, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 15, 1928, p. 3
  12. Orange voters elect W. T. Sloan sheriff and a Carrboro Republican to the commissioners Chapel Hill police chief W. T. Sloan was elected sheriff over Charles Riley, 2,750 to 1,834, and A. H. Graham was returned to the legislature. Republican W. H. Ray of Carrboro edged out Democrat John Hanner for the third commissioner's seat beside Democrats Jeter C. Lloyd and George Johnston, and the paper noted that all three new commissioners came from the Chapel Hill end of the county for the first time. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John Hodge Hanner, William T. Sloan Place: Orange County · Also named: W. H. Ray, Jeter C. Lloyd, George JohnstonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 9, 1928, p. 1
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  1. Hillsborough's A. H. (Sandy) Graham is elected Speaker of the state House Alexander Hawkins Graham of Hillsborough, Orange County's representative, was elected Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives when the session opened on January 9, 1929, defeating the Republican nominee, L. P. Hamlin, 83 to 31. In February he denied a newspaper charge that he had stacked the elections committee against the secret ballot. Place: State Capitol, RaleighSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 11, 1929, p. 1
  2. Legislature authorizes a Chapel Hill school bond election In February 1929 the General Assembly ratified an act letting the Chapel Hill Graded School District issue bonds, and on March 4 the aldermen, at the school board's request, called an April 23 election on $15,000 in bonds: $7,500 for school buildings and land already bought and $7,500 to fund a deficit in running expenses. Representative A. H. Graham helped the bill through. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Robert A. Eubanks Place: Chapel Hill Graded School, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 22, 1929, p. 1
  3. Mrs. Thomas F. Lloyd's nieces and nephews settle their suit over her will for $58,000 On June 17, 1929, as the case was about to be called in Orange County Superior Court, lawyers announced a compromise of the suit by fourteen nieces and nephews of the late Mrs. Thomas F. Lloyd to break her will, which had left most of her estate to her nephew Lueco Lloyd. The claimants took $58,000, counting earlier gifts, and the will was to stand; their caveat had charged that Lueco Lloyd took over her property improperly, and his lawyers had moved to strike those charges. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Lueco Lloyd Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1929, p. 1
  4. Orange County commissioners name a committee to put a marker to Dr. Edmund Strudwick on the courthouse square By August 1929 the Orange County commissioners had appointed A. H. Graham, S. M. Gattis, Clyde Ray and S. Strudwick to erect a marker on the court house square in Hillsborough honoring Dr. Edmund Strudwick, the celebrated Hillsborough physician. The Durham-Orange Medical Society was to give the bronze plaque, and the unveiling was expected the next month. People: Edmund Strudwick, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Samuel Mallett Gattis, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Place: Court house square, Hillsborough · Also named: Clyde Ray, S. StrudwickSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 23, 1929, p. 6
  5. Alexander H. Graham chairs the trustees' committee in the search that ends with Frank Porter Graham as UNC president Meeting in Raleigh on March 4, 1930, the trustees set up a committee of five to look into the fitness of persons suggested for the presidency of the University of North Carolina, with Alexander H. Graham as chairman and John J. Parker, Leslie Weil, Charles Whedbee and Stahle Linn as members. It was to gather facts and lay names before the board, not to nominate one man, and the trustees elected Frank Porter Graham president on June 9, 1930. His papers hold the committee correspondence from February to May 1930. People: Frank Porter Graham Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John J. Parker, Leslie WeilSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Alexander H. Graham Papers (#4998), finding aid · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 7, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1930, p. 1
  6. 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." People: Bonner D. Sawyer Place: 118 North Churton Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Bonner SawyerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1930, p. 1 · Also: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation
  7. Hillsborough's A. H. (Sandy) Graham announces for lieutenant governor Alexander H. Graham of Hillsborough, who had represented Orange in four legislatures and been Speaker of the House in 1929, announced he would run in the June Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. The Weekly predicted Orange County's whole-hearted support. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 12, 1932, p. 1
  8. Orange County gives Roosevelt and the Democratic county ticket large majorities In the November 8 election Orange County voted 2,845 for Roosevelt, 1,092 for Hoover and 160 for Norman Thomas, reversing its 1928 vote for Hoover, and elected Democrats R. A. Eubanks, W. P. Berry and J. H. Hanner county commissioners over Republicans Lueco Lloyd, W. T. Roberts and G. O. Reitzel. A. H. Graham of Hillsboro, running for lieutenant governor, drew more votes in the county than any other candidate, and in the Chapel Hill precinct Roosevelt led Hoover 737 to 221, with 116 for Thomas. People: Robert A. Eubanks, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Samuel Weldon Andrews, Lueco Lloyd, Garland O. Reitzel, William T. Sloan, W. P. Berry, John Hodge Hanner Place: Orange County polling places · Also named: Norman ThomasSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 11, 1932, p. 1
  9. Official audit finds Orange County's net debt down $161,000 in four years An audit by E. W. Parham of Goodno and Parham found that the county's net debt for bonds and state school loans had fallen $161,000 in four years and that none of the $77,000 in temporary loans of four years before remained. The county tax rate had dropped from $1.50 in 1927 to 80 cents in 1932, partly because the state had taken over the roads and most school costs, and Parham credited the commissioners, county attorney A. H. Graham and county accountant Gilbert W. Lay. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John Hodge Hanner Place: Orange County courthouse, Hillsboro · Also named: E. W. Parham, Gilbert W. LaySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 4, 1932, p. 1
  10. The American Legion Auxiliary holds an Americanism program in Hillsboro Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham spoke on Americanism at the Auxiliary's exercises in the Hillsboro high school auditorium on February 27, with Boy Scouts presenting the colors and Mrs. Lyman Cotten speaking on the restoration of Stratford, the Lee home. A tea for the members and guests followed at the home of Mrs. R. R. Hayes. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Hillsboro high school auditorium, Hillsborough · Also named: Mrs. Lyman CottenSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 2, 1934, p. 5
  11. The Chapel Hill Legion post marks Armistice Day at the Hillsboro Amusement Club Because Armistice Day fell on a Sunday, the Chapel Hill post of the American Legion and its Auxiliary held their celebration on Monday, November 12, 1934, at the Hillsboro Amusement Club, about a mile east of Hillsboro off the St. Mary's road. Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham, a member of the post, gave the main speech, followed by a barbecue supper and old-fashioned square dancing to music by a Hillsboro band. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Hillsboro Amusement Club, off St. Mary's Road east of HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 16, 1934, p. 5
  12. Orange County war veterans organize at Hillsboro to back Sandy Graham for governor On Friday, May 22, 1936 twenty-five World War veterans met in the courthouse at Hillsboro, with L. J. Phipps presiding, to organize the county's veterans for Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham of Hillsboro in the Democratic primary for governor. Carl Durham of Chapel Hill and H. G. Coleman of Hillsboro were named to head the campaign in the southern and northern parts of the county. People: Luther James Phipps, Carl T. Durham Place: Orange County courthouse, Hillsboro · Also named: H. G. ColemanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1936, p. 1
  13. Orange County gives Roosevelt and the Democratic ticket large majorities Orange County voted 3,489 to 1,506 for Franklin D. Roosevelt over Alf Landon and elected the whole Democratic county ticket, among them S. W. Andrews as register of deeds and John H. Hanner, Carl T. Durham and Dr. S. A. Nathan as county commissioners. The new board met in Hillsborough on December 7, re-elected Hanner chairman and named A. H. Graham county attorney; Nathan took the seat of W. P. Berry. People: Carl T. Durham, S. A. Nathan, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Samuel Weldon Andrews, W. P. Berry, John Hodge Hanner Place: Orange County precincts; court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Franklin D. RooseveltSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1936, p. 1
  14. The county Democratic committee names Collier Cobb Jr. to replace Carl Durham on the commissioners ticket After Carl T. Durham was chosen as the Democratic nominee for Congress, the Orange County Democratic executive committee met in the court house at Hillsboro and picked Collier Cobb Jr. of Chapel Hill to take his place as a candidate for county commissioner. With 13 of its 15 precinct members present and county chairman A. H. Graham presiding, it voted 7 to 6 for Cobb over R. E. Hughes, a Cedar Grove farmer, a closer contest than Cobb's supporters had expected, the Weekly said. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Carl T. Durham Place: Court house, Hillsboro · Also named: R. E. HughesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 4, 1938, p. 1
  15. Col. John K. Ross-Duggan plans 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, announced afternoon exercises there on Friday, April 26, for the 75th anniversary of the war's end, and a special postal cachet showing the house. A. H. Graham and W. B. Umstead of Durham were to speak. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, William B. Umstead Place: Alexander Dickson House (Johnston headquarters), near the junction of NC 86 and the Durham road, outside Hillsborough · Also named: John K. Ross-DugganSearch the index · DigitalNC: Henderson Daily Dispatch, April 20, 1940, p. 5 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 19, 1940, p. 1; Wilmington Morning Star, March 19, 1940, p. 6
  16. Chapel Hill American Legion post calls for a national emergency and conscription The post adopted resolutions, first drafted by retired Rear Admiral Percy W. Foote, asking Congress to declare a national emergency and give the President full powers, to expand the armed forces by at least a million men beyond the National Guard and reserves, and to adopt conscription for military service and for industry. The resolutions were sent to the Legion's state and national commanders and North Carolina's members of Congress. People: Henry Roland Totten, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Henry A. Whitfield Place: Legion Hut, Chapel Hill · Also named: Percy W. FooteSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1940, p. 1
  17. The Orange County draft board names an advisory board to help registrants with questionnaires With the order list from Washington in hand, the county draft board named an advisory board, chaired by A. H. Graham of Hillsboro, with members in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsboro, to help registrants fill out the eight-page classification questionnaires. The board began mailing the questionnaires from its Hillsboro office in batches of fifty, with volunteers helping its clerk. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Clarence Pickard, Garland O. Reitzel, Owen S. Robertson, Paul H. Robertson Place: Draft board office, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1940, p. 1
  18. Farmers meeting at Hillsboro prepares for families displaced by the new Army camp At a defense meeting of farmers in the Hillsboro court house on January 7, presided over by county defense chairman A. H. Graham, county agent Don Matheson said that of the 1,250 to 1,500 farm families to be moved for the Army camp in Durham, Granville and Person counties, perhaps 300 would settle in Orange and bring their tobacco allotments with them. He asked farmers to survey their neighborhoods for land the newcomers could buy or rent; the draft, tire rationing and defense bonds were also discussed. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Don S. Matheson Place: Court house, HillsboroughThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 9, 1942, p. 1
  19. Orange County's neighborhood leaders meet at the Hillsborough courthouse to launch the wartime test The county-wide training meeting on the afternoon of April 28, 1942, drew 265 people, among them 149 of the 195 white and 66 of the 77 Black neighborhood leaders. A. H. Graham, general chairman of Orange County defense, spoke after a chorus from the Black high school sang; other speakers took up war bonds, the Farmers Exchange's "Buy a Bond Pig" offer, salvage, gardens and edible soybeans, which the crowd tasted afterward. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Don S. Matheson, W. E. Thompson Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service, Orange and Lee Counties, North Carolina, Demonstrate How Neighborhood Leaders Can Help in Securing Participation of Rural Families in Agriculture's Wartime Programs, Extension Service Circular 387 (1942), scan p. 10 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1942, p. 1
  20. Governor Broughton names A. H. Graham chairman of Orange County's Labor Mobilization Board Governor J. Melville Broughton appointed A. H. Graham of Hillsboro chairman of the Labor Mobilization Board for Orange County. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Hillsborough · Also named: J. Melville BroughtonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 3, 1943, p. 6
  21. Chapel Hill and Carrboro go over their United War Fund goal Contributions to the United War Fund in Chapel Hill and Carrboro reached $6,582 against a goal of $6,500, raised without a house-to-house canvass. The goal added $1,500 for the local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and for weekend entertainment of servicemen at the Recreation Center, which the church women could no longer pay for. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Chapel Hill and CarrboroThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 19, 1943, p. 1
  22. Two Orange County farm families receive the REA's War Food Production award The Milton Latta family of Schley and the T. N. Brown family of New Hope received plaques for the Rural Electrification Administration's War Food Production award at the Hillsboro Lions Club luncheon on Thursday, April 13, 1944, for using electricity to raise their farm output; the Browns had doubled their grade A milk production. The paper reported they were the first families on the Atlantic seaboard to receive the national award; A. H. Graham presented the plaques, and Gwyn Price and W. Kerr Scott spoke. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, W. Kerr Scott Place: Lions Club luncheon, Hillsborough · Also named: Milton Latta, T. N. Brown, Gwyn PriceSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 20, 1944, p. 1
  23. Veterans organize an American Legion post in Hillsborough A group of local veterans met at the Orange County courthouse on Tuesday, May 30, 1944, organized a Hillsborough post of the American Legion and elected A. H. Graham commander. Adjutant J. L. Lockhart said one reason was that the Chapel Hill post was too hard to reach; the new post held a barbecue on July 4 to build up a membership of about 18. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Owen S. Robertson Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: J. L. LockhartSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 8, 1944, p. 1
  24. The United War Fund drive ends well over quota in Hillsboro and rural Orange When the United War Fund drive closed on October 31, Hillsboro and rural Orange had turned in about $3,100 against a quota of $1,961, led by the cotton mills and the town canvass, with the county schools reaching rural families. Chairman Gilbert W. Ray singled out Aycock school's $156.43. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Gilbert W. Ray Place: Hillsboro and northern Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1944, p. 1
  25. Hillsboro's newly activated American Legion post installs its first officers W. W. Green, commander of Durham's Post 7, installed A. H. Graham as commander and the other officers of Hillsboro's American Legion Post No. 85, organized early in the fall and grown to 68 members; Green said it was the first installation held at the post. The post was already holding dances to raise money for a Legion hut for returning servicemen. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Hillsboro · Also named: W. W. GreenSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 7, 1944, p. 1
  26. Governor Cherry names A. H. Graham of Hillsborough chairman of the State Highway Commission Governor R. Gregg Cherry appointed Hillsborough lawyer A. H. (Sandy) Graham, a former House speaker and lieutenant governor, chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commission at $10,000 a year, to oversee postwar road rebuilding. The county commissioners named the firm of Graham and Eskridge county attorneys in his absence, and Hillsboro men honored him with a barbecue on May 9. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: R. Gregg CherrySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 3, 1945, p. 1
  27. E. M. Lynch succeeds A. H. Graham as Orange County Democratic chairman The county Democratic convention at the courthouse elected Clerk of Court E. M. Lynch chairman of the executive committee, ending A. H. Graham's 26 years in the post, with Mrs. C. W. Stanford vice-chairman and G. W. Ray secretary. Speakers thanked Graham, and the convention endorsed Carl Durham's reelection to Congress. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Gilbert W. Ray Place: Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Mrs. C. W. Stanford, Carl DurhamSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 2, 1946, p. 1
  28. 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. People: George Watts Carr Sr. Place: Montrose, 320 St. Mary's Road, Hillsborough · Also named: George Watts Carr, Watts Carr · Also mentions: Burwell SchoolSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 320 St. Mary's Road, Montrose
  29. R. O. Forrest becomes chairman of the Orange County Democratic executive committee The Orange County Democratic convention, held in the Hillsboro courthouse on May 15, 1948, and among the party's best attended in years, named R. O. Forrest, chairman of the county board of elections, as county party chairman, with county attorney J. Dumont Eskridge as secretary and Mrs. Charles Stanford as vice chairman. Carl T. Durham and A. H. (Sandy) Graham spoke. People: Carl T. Durham, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Robert O. Forrest Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: J. Dumont Eskridge, Mrs. Charles StanfordSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 20, 1948, p. 1
  30. Orange County votes for the state's road and school bonds About 4,100 Orange voters approved Governor Kerr Scott's $200 million secondary road bonds, 2,450 to 1,743, and the $25 million school building bonds, 3,296 to 879. The Hillsboro precinct voted the road bonds down 478 to 278, the road bonds carried in Chapel Hill by two votes, and University precinct was the only one to vote against both issues. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1949, p. 1
  31. Orange Democrats hold their election rally at Schley Grange Hall, with Willis Smith on the platform Orange County Democrats held their pre-election barbecue rally at the Schley Grange Hall, where William B. Umstead of Durham praised the county's government and the party's record, and Senate nominee Willis Smith, who had beaten Orange County's Frank P. Graham in the spring primary, appeared and was introduced as an old friend. The paper judged Smith's welcome cooler than Congressman Carl T. Durham's but put it down to his being little known. People: William B. Umstead, Carl T. Durham, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Schley Grange Hall, Schley · Also named: Willis Smith, Frank P. GrahamThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 2, 1950, p. 1
  32. A new board of Hillsboro's Legion Memorial Hut reverses the decision to sell the hut At the stockholders' meeting ordered by the Superior Court, Legionnaires elected a new board for Legion Memorial Hut, Inc., which reversed the old board's decision to sell the Hillsboro hut and moved to pay off the rest of its debt without selling more stock privately. The paper said this apparently settled a quarrel that had split the post. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: American Legion hut, HillsboroughThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1950, p. 1
  33. The county sells the First Mountain tract it bought for a smallpox pest house in 1900 Lawyer A. H. Graham found that 15 acres atop First Mountain, south of Hillsboro off NC 86, belonged to the county, bought for $60 in 1900 for a pest house during that year's smallpox epidemic. The commissioners sold it at $100 an acre to a Guilford County firm of John A. Boren and A. M. Cheek that wanted to prospect for a mineral used in fire brick. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: First Mountain, south of Hillsboro · Also named: John A. Boren, A. M. CheekSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 4, 1951, p. 1
  34. Hillsborough's A. H. Graham returns as chairman of the State Highway Commission Governor William B. Umstead named A. H. "Sandy" Graham of Hillsborough chairman of the newly expanded State Highway Commission, the post Graham had held from 1945 to 1949, and he was sworn in the next day. At his first press conference he named the commission's reorganization, the growth of the primary road system and the upkeep of the many recently built rural roads as its main problems. People: William B. Umstead Place: State Highway Commission, RaleighSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 14, 1953, p. 1
  35. Piedmont Electric's annual meeting draws some 1,500 members to Hillsboro About 1,500 members attended the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation's fourteenth annual meeting in the Hillsboro High School auditorium, where Highway Commission chairman A. H. Graham praised the state's progress in rural electrification and roads. The co-op reported more than 4,800 members on 1,250 miles of line in six counties after adding some 300 members and 45 miles of line in the year, and its board re-elected W. F. Shaw president. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Hillsboro High School auditorium, Hillsborough · Also named: W. F. ShawThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 25, 1953, p. 1
  36. Hillsboro attorney J. Dumont Eskridge dies at 42 Joseph Dumont Eskridge, who came to Hillsboro from Surry County about 1934 and practiced law with A. H. Graham for some 18 years, died suddenly at his home. He had been prosecuting attorney of the county recorder's court and was a charter member and past president of the Hillsboro Lions Club and a deacon of the Presbyterian church. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Hillsborough · Also named: J. Dumont EskridgeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 16, 1953, p. 1
  37. A. H. Graham and John Q. LeGrand form a law firm, and the commissioners name it county attorney Highway Commission chairman A. H. Graham and Chapel Hill attorney John Q. LeGrand formed Graham and LeGrand, with offices in Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, succeeding the firm of Graham and Eskridge. The county commissioners at once appointed the new firm county attorney; Graham's firm had held that post since 1914 except while he served in the First World War. Place: Hillsborough and Chapel Hill · Also named: John Q. LeGrandSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 6, 1953, p. 1
  38. Rep. Umstead objects to a new Chapel Hill-Hillsborough road through New Hope Speaking for citizens who had complained to him, Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. told the county commissioners that the state should not extend the Chapel Hill-New Hope road into Hillsborough while 75 to 100 miles of roads promised stabilization under the rural roads bond program were still unimproved, and he said he would carry his objection to the Highway Commission. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John W. Umstead Jr. Place: Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 4, 1954, p. 1
  39. A permanent truck weighing station opens on US 70 near Hillsboro The state opened a permanent, round-the-clock truck weighing station on US 70 between Hillsboro and the Eno River, with a unit on each side of the highway and a staff of ten under the Department of Motor Vehicles. Highway Commission chairman A. H. Graham said more than 600 tractor-trailers a day used that stretch and that the station would protect roads and bridges from overloaded trucks. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: US 70 between Hillsboro and the Eno River, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Eno RiverSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 2, 1955, p. 1
  40. Annie Cameron receives the Hillsboro Exchange Club's first Book of Golden Deeds award At the annual homecoming at St. Mary's Chapel, A. H. Graham presented Miss Annie Cameron with the Hillsboro Exchange Club's Book of Golden Deeds award for her years of service to the community. She was the first to receive the award, begun that year, and the book was to be shown in the Hillsboro Public Library. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Annie Sutton Cameron Place: St. Mary's Chapel, St. Mary's Road, Orange County · Also named: Annie CameronSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1955, p. 1
  41. Federal roads bureau approves four-laning US 70 north of Hillsboro The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads approved federal aid to add two lanes to 8.25 miles of US 70 north of Hillsboro, a job estimated at $670,000 with $385,000 in federal money. The bureau also said the new interstate route would likely pass south of town, which surprised local people. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: US 70 north of HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 1, 1956, p. 8
  42. The State Highway Commission decides to rebuild US 70 through Orange as a limited-access interstate road Adopting a study committee's report, the commission decided to add a second lane to the 8.5 miles of US 70 between the Eno River and the Eno substation to interstate standards with limited access, since the new federal road act would pay 90 percent of the cost; whether it would follow the old road or a new route north or south of Hillsboro was left to further surveys. On July 25 Chairman A. H. Graham of Hillsboro announced about $2.1 million in interstate funds for grading and right of way on that stretch, with more for paving a second lane from Efland toward Greensboro. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: US 70 from the Eno River to the Eno substation, Orange County · Also mentions: Eno RiverSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 5, 1956, p. 1
  43. Hillsborough grants Morris Telephone a 30-year franchise under protest The town board approved a 30-year franchise for the Morris Telephone Company, which needed it to borrow for expansion, but with Town Attorney A. H. Graham calling it 'the sorriest telephone service' anywhere, the board also resolved to carry a formal protest to the State Utilities Commission unless the company installed adequate equipment within eight months. The company said it had invested $101,197 since 1947 and raised local phones from 457 in December 1948 to 1,268, with about 200 orders waiting. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Town Hall, HillsboroughThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 7, 1957, p. 1
  44. A Superior Court judge refuses to stop the second Carrboro merger vote After a 75-minute hearing at Hillsboro, Judge Hamilton Hobgood sustained County Attorney A. H. Graham's demurrer and denied an injunction sought by a Carrboro merger opponent, suing for himself and other taxpayers, who argued that the school committee's petition for the vote did not meet the law. The election went ahead the next day and the merger passed. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Superior Court, courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Hamilton HobgoodThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 7, 1958, p. 1
  45. The county school board denies the Walden family's appeal after a hearing For the second time in two weeks the Orange County Board of Education rejected a Black Carrboro family's appeal for places at the all-white Carrboro Elementary School, ruling that the Waldens' original reasons, distance and Chapel Hill tuition, no longer held. The paper said the two couples now had to go to court if they wanted to press their claims. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: Orange County Board of Education, Hillsboro · Also named: Darnell Walden, Clara Mae Walden · Also mentions: Carrboro Elementary SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 18, 1958, p. 1
  46. Judge L. J. Phipps becomes chairman of the Orange County Democrats The Orange County Democratic executive committee paid tribute to its late chairman R. O. Forrest and unanimously elected Recorder's Court Judge L. J. Phipps to succeed him. Mrs. R. O. Forrest was elected vice chairman in place of Harriet Herring, who asked to step aside. People: Luther James Phipps, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Robert O. Forrest Place: Courthouse, Hillsboro · Also named: Harriet Herring, Irene Allen ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 30, 1958, p. 1
  47. Hillsboro Savings and Loan buys a Churton Street lot for a downtown office The 46-year-old association, begun in 1913 in the back of a West Hillsboro drugstore and for ten years in its own building on Hillsboro Avenue, bought a lot on Churton Street south of the A. H. Graham office building from Graham and the Fred Cates estate, cancelling a planned auction, to build a downtown drive-in office reached from Churton and East King streets. Its assets had passed $3,115,000. People: Brodie S. Carr, Ira Ward, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: North Churton Street south of the A. H. Graham office building, Hillsboro · Also named: Fred Cates · Also mentions: Churton StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 24, 1959, p. 1
  48. 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. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: White Cross School, north side of NC 54 west of SR 1952, White CrossThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 28, 1961, year-in-review story on integration, p. 2
  49. A Hillsborough family bequest sets up the John W. Graham Scholarships at UNC The University announced the John W. Graham Scholarships, paid for with $25,000 left in the will of Annie Graham Smallwood of New York, formerly of Hillsborough, in memory of her father, the Hillsborough lawyer, state senator and longtime UNC trustee John W. Graham (1838-1928). People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Annie Graham SmallwoodSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 18, 1966, p. 5

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Ralph Waldo McDonald papers, 1936.

McDonald, Ralph Waldo, 1903-1977 · 1936

Ralph Waldo McDonald (1903-1977) ran for governor of North Carolina in 1936, and his papers from that year, about 1,100 items in three linear feet, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5413. Political cartoons and campaign literature cover the Democratic Party, campaign funds, contested elections, Duke Power and Clyde Roark Hoey, with photographs of the Order of Gimghoul at Chapel Hill and of Walker Percy.

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Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) Papers

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 · 1928

Correspondence of Josephus Daniels, Raleigh editor and secretary of the navy from 1913 to 1921, dated 1928 to 1946. In a 1933 letter he argues that the state should offer education to every student through the university level; another, from Alexander H. Graham of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, concerns building highways to Chapel Hill. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.442.

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