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Alex Zaffron served on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen for twelve years, from December 1995 to December 2007, and was the town's mayor pro tem from 2001 to 2003. He also chaired the Orange County Democratic Party. In 1999 he was one of three aldermen who voted to rename the board the Board of Councillors, and in 2005 he ran for mayor, losing to Mark Chilton.
Source: The Daily Tar Heel, August 19, 1999
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Papers of Ellie Kinnaird, born 1931, a North Carolina state senator, spanning 1987 to 2016 and running to roughly 6,400 items across 20.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5356. The papers focus on capital punishment in North Carolina and the campaigns against it, health insurance legislation, voting technology, and the work of women legislators in the General Assembly.
Roughly 2,000 items in 6.5 linear feet kept as the papers of Michael R. Nelson, born 1963, dated from about 1890 to 2012, collection 70140 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include politics and government in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County, campaign paraphernalia, and gay activists and politicians in North Carolina, naming Joseph A. Herzenberg, 1941 to 2007.
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