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Ralph Waldo McDonald

1903–1977 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Ralph McDonald campaigns for governor in the Hillsboro courthouse Three days before the runoff primary, gubernatorial candidate Ralph W. McDonald spoke to a full courtroom in the Hillsboro courthouse, where he called Orange County's Sandy Graham, seated among his listeners, one of the first citizens of North Carolina. Place: Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1936, p. 1
  2. Orange County Democrats give Gregg Cherry a heavy majority in the primary for governor In the Democratic primary of May 27, 1944, Orange County voted 1,316 for R. Gregg Cherry and 519 for Ralph W. McDonald, a former county resident who had left the university's extension staff to run, and 1,334 to 408 for Clyde R. Hoey over Cameron Morrison for the Senate. Chapel Hill attorney L. J. Phipps narrowly lost his home county to State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, 861 to 871; there were no local contests and the vote was light. People: Ralph Waldo McDonald, Luther James Phipps Place: Orange County precincts · Also named: R. Gregg Cherry, Charles M. Johnson, Clyde R. Hoey, Cameron MorrisonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 8, 1944, p. 1

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By Ralph Waldo McDonald

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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