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Cameron Morrison
Cameron Morrison was an influential trustee of the university and, as governor in the early 1920s, a strong supporter of its expansion program; the university named Morrison Residence Hall, completed in 1965, for him. He began his political career supporting Charles B. Aycock and the white supremacy campaign of 1898.
Source: The Carolina Story: Cameron Morrison (1869-1953) and Morrison Residence Hall
1869–1953 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Life and Orange County connections
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- Trinity's William P. Few proposes a joint medical school with UNC After the trustees' site committee split on December 16, Few met the committee at the governor's mansion and offered a four-year school with two years at Chapel Hill and two in Durham near Watts Hospital, backed by $1 million from each side and a Trinity endowment. Morrison endorsed it that night, but Baptist protest over church and state killed it within weeks. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Isaac Hall Manning, Cameron MorrisonSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 251-255
- Morrison Residence Hall opens, named for Cameron Morrison The university completed Morrison Residence Hall, a men's dormitory, in 1965 and named it for former governor Cameron Morrison, an influential trustee who had backed the university's expansion program in the 1920s.Search the index · The Carolina Story: Cameron Morrison (1869-1953) and Morrison Residence Hall
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- UNC School of Medicine University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- Background context: Morrison, Cameron NCpedia
- Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 14 collections naming Cameron Morrison State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 166 Orange County pages naming Cameron Morrison DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Cameron Morrison NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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