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W. Kerr Scott

W. Kerr Scott, as governor of North Carolina, appointed university president Frank Porter Graham to the U.S. Senate on March 22, 1949, ending Graham's presidency. Controller W. D. Carmichael Jr. served as acting president until the trustees elected Gordon Gray.

Source: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 154

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1896–1958 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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William Kerr Scott (1896-1958) Papers (State Archives series)

Unknown · 1900

Audiovisual material from the papers of William Kerr Scott (1896 to 1958), governor of North Carolina from 1949 to 1953 and afterward a United States senator, in the State Archives' Audiovisual Materials. The one item concerns Chapel Hill; its date is given only as 1900.

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Robert W. Scott (1861-1929) Papers

Scott family · 1848

Papers of the family of Robert W. Scott, 1848 to 1963. Scott was an Alamance County legislator and farm leader and the father of Governor W. Kerr Scott. His letters of 1879 to 1921 go mostly to Lizzie J. Hughes, his fiancee and then wife, sent from home, from Houghton Farm in New York, where he studied experimental farming, and from travels. Hawfields, Cedar Grove and Hillsborough appear. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.200.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Scott, William Kerr, 1896-1958.

State Archives of NC

Proposal for Institute of Outdoor Drama

Evans, W. Ney, 1898-1973; Hunter, Kermit · 1955

Kermit Hunter and W. Ney Evans drafted this 1955 proposal for creating an Institute of Outdoor Drama, later founded at UNC-Chapel Hill. Supporting letters come from Adlai Stevenson, Governor Luther Hodges, and Senators W. Kerr Scott and Sam Ervin.

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November 1948–December 1949 Schley Grange brings telephones to fifty-one families and wins a national community award For a National Grange and Sears-Roebuck Foundation contest, Schley Grange members cleared right-of-way, cut cedar poles and strung three miles of wire so the telephone company could give service to 51 families; they also held a soil conservation workshop with the extension service. Schley won the national prize in November 1948, and the new brick Grange hall it paid for was dedicated on December 6, 1949 before about five hundred people. People: W. Kerr ScottSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Schley Grange Hall National Register nomination (OR3148)
March 22, 1949 Governor Kerr Scott appoints UNC President Frank Graham to the U.S. Senate On March 22, 1949, Governor W. Kerr Scott named Frank Porter Graham to the United States Senate, ending his presidency of the university. Controller W. D. Carmichael Jr. became acting president. People: W. Kerr ScottSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 154
December 1949 Schley Grange dedicates the hall it won in a national contest National Grange master Albert S. Goss and Governor W. Kerr Scott were set to take part in the dedication of the new $50,000 Schley Grange Hall. Sears-Roebuck Foundation built and furnished the hall after the Grange won the 1948 national community service contest. People: W. Kerr ScottSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, December 1, 1949, p. 1
March 22, 1952 University trustees give Albert Coates the O. Max Gardner Award By unanimous vote the trustees named Coates the faculty member of the Consolidated University who had done most that year for the welfare of humanity, under the award created by the late governor's will. Coates accepted it for the Institute, and it carried $10,000. People: O. Max Gardner, W. Kerr ScottSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 219

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Schley Grange Hall Community centers and organizations · Schley · 2 events here

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Albert Coates 1 entry: University trustees give Albert Coates the O. Max Gardner Award (March 22, 1952)
Frank Porter Graham 1 entry: Governor Kerr Scott appoints UNC President Frank Graham to the U.S. Senate (March 22, 1949)

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Background context: Historical marker G-81: W. Kerr Scott NC Highway Historical Marker Governor, 1949-1953; United States Senator, 1954-1958; N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture, 1937-1948. Birthplace is nearby.
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 14 Orange County pages naming William Kerr Scott DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
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