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Henry W. Lewis

Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916–2004) joined the faculty of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill in 1946 and was its director from 1973 to 1979. He was the Institute's authority on election law and the property tax, and a leading churchman at the Chapel of the Cross.

Source: UNC School of Government: In Memoriam: Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916-2004), Popular Government, Winter 2005

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1916–2004 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Henry W. Lewis

Henry Wilkins Lewis papers, 1820-1997.

Lewis, Henry W. (Henry Wilkins), 1916-2004 · 1820

Papers of Henry W. Lewis (1916-2004) of the Institute of Government at UNC, spanning 1820 to 1997 in roughly 36,000 items and 61 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4456. Diaries and photographs are among the material. Topics include family members named Lewis and Wilkins, the Bank of Northampton, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, with Albert Coates and Frank Porter Graham also named.

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  1. Henry W. Lewis joins the Institute of Government faculty After his discharge from the Army, Lewis joined the small faculty of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, where he worked mainly on election law and the property tax. People: Henry Wilkins LewisSearch the index · UNC School of Government: In Memoriam: Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916-2004), Popular Government, Winter 2005
  2. The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study Asked in 1946 by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County leaders after a Charlotte News series, the Institute spent nearly three years inventorying every city and county department. Coates gave the first public report on November 1, 1949, staff members presented eight more over four months, and the study took no side on merger; the city and county schools were combined about a decade later. People: Albert Coates, Henry W. Lewis, George H. Esser Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 217
  3. Henry W. Lewis serves as director of the Institute of Government Lewis succeeded to the directorship of the Institute of Government in 1973 and held it until he retired from the faculty in 1979. People: Henry Wilkins LewisSearch the index · UNC School of Government: In Memoriam: Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916-2004), Popular Government, Winter 2005
  4. The Henry W. Lewis classroom is dedicated in the Knapp-Sanders Building The Institute of Government named a classroom for Lewis in its renovated Knapp-Sanders Building. People: Henry Wilkins LewisSearch the index · UNC School of Government: In Memoriam: Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916-2004), Popular Government, Winter 2005

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