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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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  1. 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
  2. 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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  • NC LIVE: prepared search for Cameron Morrison Library card 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
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