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William B. Umstead

William B. Umstead, as a congressman, won the federal tax ruling that let Will Reynolds give $10,000 for the site of the Institute of Government's building in Chapel Hill. As governor in 1954 he asked the Institute's Albert Coates and James C. N. Paul to study the Brown decision and proposals for keeping separate schools within it.

Source: Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 178, 234

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1895–1954 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By William B. Umstead

Statement by Albert Coates, Director of the Institute of Government, speaking for William B. Umstead, Governor of North Carolina in presenting the new addition to Venable Hall to the University of North Carolina, 24 October, 1953

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989; Umstead, William Bradley, 1895-1954 · 1953 · University of North Carolina

Albert Coates, director of the Institute of Government, spoke for Governor William B. Umstead on 24 October 1953 in presenting the new addition to Venable Hall to the University of North Carolina. The typescript of that address was issued at Chapel Hill by the university in 1953, and it deals with university addresses, campus buildings and the chemistry department.

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About William B. Umstead

R. B. House papers, 1916-1973.

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987 · 1916

R. B. House (1892-1987) was chancellor at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1916 to 1973, come to 7,500 items in six linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3581. University administration is the main subject, with material on Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase, Josephus and Jonathan Daniels, Gordon Gray, Terry Sanford, O. Max Gardner, the Watauga Club and communism in North Carolina.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Umstead, William Bradley, 1895-1954.

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Outfitting a soldier

Fulghum, Neil · 2002 · Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Web exhibit from 2002 by Neil Fulghum showing the clothing and equipment the army issued to William B. Umstead, later governor of North Carolina, in World War I, with an introductory essay. Part of Documenting the American South, in the collection North Carolinians and the Great War.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Umstead, William Bradley, 1895-1954.

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  1. Construction begins on the Institute of Government building on Franklin Street A $10,000 gift from Will Reynolds, given after Congressman William Umstead won an IRS ruling that the Institute was a charity, paid for the land. Gifts from Gordon and Bowman Gray covered half of the $50,000 cost and Julian Price's Jefferson Standard Life lent the rest on Coates's signature, against more than half his salary, for a scaled-down Federal-style building of three floors over a raised basement. People: Albert Coates, Gordon Gray, William B. Umstead, Bowman Gray 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. 182
  2. Col. John K. Ross-Duggan holds 75th-anniversary exercises at the restored Johnston headquarters house Col. John K. Ross-Duggan, who with his wife had restored the Dickson house outside Hillsborough, marked the 75th anniversary of the war's end there with afternoon exercises and a special postal cachet showing the house. A. H. Graham and W. B. Umstead of Durham were to speak. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, William B. UmsteadSearch the index · DigitalNC: Henderson Daily Dispatch, April 20, 1940, p. 5
  3. Albert Coates and James C. N. Paul prepare the Institute's report on the Brown decision for Governor Umstead At Governor William B. Umstead's request, Coates wrote a history of the state's separate schools and Paul, who had clerked for Chief Justice Fred Vinson, examined the ruling and the plans for getting around it, concluding that segregated schools could not be kept. When Umstead named Thomas J. Pearsall's advisory committee on August 11, 1954, the report was the first paper its members received, and Coates then ran a shortened version in Popular Government. People: Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins) Pearsall, William B. UmsteadSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 231-238

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