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Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson, later president of the United States, first spoke at the University of North Carolina in January 1909, as president of Princeton, on the virtues of Robert E. Lee. He came back in 1911 as governor of New Jersey to give the commencement address.

Source: 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), p. 111

1856–1924 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Craig, Locke · 1880

Papers of Locke Craig, Asheville lawyer who served in the North Carolina legislature from 1898 to 1903 and as governor from 1913 to 1917. The 126 items, beginning in 1880, include personal letters, political and religious speeches, an address on Freemasonry, and a chemistry notebook he kept as a University of North Carolina student. Kemp P. Battle, Henry G. Connor and Woodrow Wilson are among the names that appear.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.

Duke

Worth family papers,

Worth (Family) · 1844

Worth family papers, about 694 items beginning in 1844: letters, business papers and other material on family affairs, opposition to secession, North Carolina politics, fertilizer and textile businesses, Zebulon B. Vance, and federal patronage early in Woodrow Wilson's administration. Correspondents and subjects include Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Edwin A. Alderman, George T. Winston, Josephus Daniels and Robert Bingham of the Bingham School, with UNC students among them.

Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.

Duke

Link family papers, 1860s-2012.

Link (Family : Link, Arthur S. (Arthur Stanley), 1920-1998) · 1864

Link family papers spanning the 1860s to 2012, about 7,200 items in ten linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5527. Correspondence, love letters and personal narratives center on Arthur S. Link (1920-1998), Margaret Douglas Link and William A. Link. Other subjects include Davidson College and student life at Chapel Hill, Woodrow Wilson, civil rights and race relations, parenting and child rearing, and the care of relatives who were mentally ill.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.

UNC

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  1. Students nominate Woodrow Wilson for president after his campus speech Students impressed by Woodrow Wilson's speech on Robert E. Lee met in the YMCA building right afterward and nominated him for president of the United States. One of them, Frank Porter Graham, was in the floor demonstration when the Democrats nominated Wilson in 1912. People: Frank Porter GrahamSearch 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), p. 111

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  • University YMCA University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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