In the presidential vote of November 11, 1824, Orange gave the Andrew Jackson ticket 638 votes to 591 for the William H. Crawford ticket, though its congressman Willie P. Mangum backed Crawford. In November 1828 the county gave the Jackson electors 1,036 votes to 440 for the Adams ticket. Mangum, then a Jacksonian, was chosen senator in 1830 and broke with Jackson over the bank deposits; on May 30, 1834 an Orange meeting called the removal of the deposits unauthorized and approved his course. In 1836, after many county leaders broke with Jackson, supporters of Hugh L. White and of Martin Van Buren held rival meetings at the Hillsborough court house. Orange gave Van Buren 1,103 votes to 905 for White, and that November Hugh Waddell, who represented Orange in the state Senate, was elected its Whig Speaker. In August 1837 Dr. William Montgomery beat the Whig William A. Graham for Congress with only a small majority in Orange. In August 1838 Van Buren men took three Orange seats from the Whigs, Joseph Allison beating Waddell for the Senate, but in November the House of Commons chose Graham as Speaker on a party vote. On August 8, 1839 Orange gave Montgomery 1,513 votes to 1,343 for the Whig George W. Haywood.
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The Papers Of Willie Person Mangum
Mangum, Willie Person · 1950 · State Dept. of Archives and History
The papers of Willie Person Mangum, 1792 to 1861, a lawyer, judge and United States senator from the part of Orange County that later became Durham County. Five volumes of correspondence published by the State Department of Archives and History beginning in 1950, arranged by date from 1807 to 1894, with illustrations, portraits and folding maps. A source for antebellum North Carolina and national politics, the Whig Party and the Mangum family.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1951), Journal of American History (1951), The Journal of Southern History (1953), Journal of American History (1953), The Journal of Southern History (1954), The Journal of Southern History (1955), The Journal of Southern History (1957), Journal of American History (1957), The American Historical Review (1957).
Map of Orange County, N.C.
Tate, George W. · 1891 · George W. Tate
Facsimile, dated 1940, of George W. Tate's 1891 map of Orange County. It shows towns, roads, railroads such as the North Carolina Rail Road and the Chapel Hill line, residences, schools, churches, mills and mines, with portraits and pictures of buildings in the margins.
Willie Person Mangum papers,
Mangum, Willie Person,; Mangum, Arthur,; Mangum, Charity Alston Cain
Personal and political papers of Willie Person Mangum, the Whig senator from Orange County, together with papers of Arthur Mangum and Charity Alston Cain Mangum. Correspondents include Daniel Webster, William A. Graham, David L. Swain, John Chavis and Abraham Lincoln, and other topics include plantations at Hillsborough, the estate called Walnut Hill, state politics, agriculture and education.
Winners of the Willie Person Mangum medal.
1979
Two photocopied leaves list the winners of the Willie Person Mangum medal from 1879 to 1979, with names and dates. The medal went to the member of the senior class who gave the best oration at an annual contest at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.
About Hugh Waddell · named in 3 of this story’s entries
Substance of the testimony concerning the voters about whom the committee disagree.
1849
Testimony gathered in an 1849 contested election case from Orange County, summarizing the evidence about the individual voters whose eligibility the committee could not agree on. John Berry and Hugh Waddell were the candidates in the case before the North Carolina Senate committee on privileges and elections. Eight pages, useful to anyone studying who could vote in the county and on what terms.
To the freemen of Orange County.
Waddell, Hugh, 1799-1878 · 1835
Hugh Waddell announces his candidacy for the House of Commons in the seat left vacant by James Forrest, signing at Orange County on the first of November 1835. An address printed for the freemen of the county, and one of the few surviving traces of that contest.
Reports from the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the case of the contested election in the district of Orange.
North Carolina · 1849 · S. Gales
Senate committee reports from 1849 on the contested election for Orange County's seat in the 37th Senatorial District of North Carolina, fought between Hugh Waddell (1799-1878) and John Berry (1798-1870). The committee split, and the pamphlet prints both parts' reports, the Senate resolutions and the committee's proceedings. Printed in Raleigh by S. Gales, 32 pages.
Architectural developments at "Montrose" in the 1850's
Allcott, John V., 1905-1989 · 1965
John V. Allcott's 1965 article on the building campaign at Montrose, the Hillsborough home of William A. Graham, during the 1850s. Allcott connects the work to the architect Alexander Jackson Davis, and the piece runs as pages 85 to 95 of a larger publication, with illustrations.
Letter from the Hon. William A. Graham
1861
William A. Graham's letter to A. M. Waddell, dated at Hillsborough on February 5, 1861, and printed there. Graham, the former governor and senator who lived in Hillsborough, argues against secession on the ground that Abraham Lincoln's election alone does not justify leaving the Union. A single printed letter from the winter before North Carolina seceded.
Frank P. Graham and Hubert Robinson; William Aycock and Frank P. Graham
1962
Two filmed interviews recorded on 9 June 1962 with Frank Porter Graham, former president of the University of North Carolina. In the first he talks with Hubert Robinson, a Black man who spent years as his driver, butler and assistant; in the second chancellor William Aycock joins him. Topics include university history, Graham's United Nations work and South Asian affairs.
William A. Graham Family Bible Records
1759
Family pages from the Bible of William A. Graham of Hillsborough, written into an 1838 American Bible Society edition and running from 1759 to 1923. Graham (1804 to 1875) was governor of North Carolina and sat in both the United States and Confederate senates. Later family dates touch the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the Second World War, and Lincoln County also figures. Five images.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Wider background: Politics & Government · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
William Friday
Link, William A. · 1995
Biography of William C. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina system, by historian William A. Link, published by UNC Press in 1995 with the subtitle power, purpose, and American higher education. It covers Friday's career and the history of the university at Chapel Hill and statewide. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.
The Story of the Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Coates, Albert McKinley · 1981
Albert Coates's own account of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, which he founded, subtitled 'out of a classroom in Chapel Hill' and published in 1981. The 303 pages trace the institute's history and its role in educating North Carolina's public officials.
Communists on Campus
Billingsley, William J. · 1999 · University of Georgia Press
William J. Billingsley's history of the Speaker Ban Law, the 1963 North Carolina statute that barred known Communists from speaking on state campuses, and the fight over it at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The subtitle sets the scope: race, politics and the public university in sixties North Carolina. It treats academic freedom, anti-communist movements and free speech in the state. University of Georgia Press, 1999, 308 pages with eight pages of plates.
Reviewed in Academe (2000), The American Historical Review (2001), The Journal of Southern History (2001), Journal of American History (2001), The Journal of Politics (2001).
Frank Porter Graham and the 1950 Senate Race in North Carolina
Pleasants, Julian M.; Burns, Augustus M., III · 1990 · UNC Press
Julian M. Pleasants and Augustus M. Burns III on the 1950 Democratic Senate primary in North Carolina, in which Frank Porter Graham, the former president of the University of North Carolina, lost to Willis Smith after a campaign marked by race-baiting. Primaries, elections and race relations in the state are its subjects. Published by UNC Press in 1990, 356 pages with illustrations.
Reviewed in Choice Reviews Online (1991), The American Historical Review (1991), Journal of American History (1991), The Journal of Southern History (1992).
The Age of Orange: Political and Intellectual Leadership in North Carolina, 1752-1861
Blackwelder, Ruth · 1961
Ruth Blackwelder's study of political and intellectual leadership in Orange County and North Carolina from 1752 to 1861, published in Charlotte by W. Loftin in 1961. Topics include state politics and government, intellectual life before the Civil War, and county genealogy. It runs 216 pages with illustrations and a bibliography. Part of the Wall Local History Collection.
Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
Nash, Frank · 1953
Francis Nash's history of Hillsborough in colonial and Revolutionary times, first published in 1903 and reprinted in 1953 by Edwards & Broughton with an index and a sketch of the author. Topics include the Regulator Insurrection of 1766 to 1771, the Revolution and local genealogy.
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The Good Government Man
Covington, Jr., Howard E. · 2010
Howard E. Covington Jr.'s biography of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the law professor who founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina and led it through its early years. Topics include Coates as a law teacher and the institute's history as a center for the study of public administration in Chapel Hill. Published in 2010 by the University Library at Chapel Hill, 322 pages with 32 pages of plates.
Frank Porter Graham: A Southern Liberal
Ashby, Warren H. · 1981 · Blair
Warren Ashby's biography of Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972), president of the University of North Carolina from 1930 to 1949 and later a United States senator. Published by Blair in 1981, x and 386 pages with sixteen leaves of plates and a bibliography.
Reviewed in The American Historical Review (1981), Journal of American History (1981).
Orange County, 1752-1952
Lefler, Hugh Talmage; Wager, Paul W. · 1953
Hugh Talmage Lefler and Paul W. Wager's history of Orange County across its first two centuries, 1752 to 1952, prepared for the county's bicentennial. It covers government and politics, biography and the county's families, and doubles as a genealogical reference. Published in Chapel Hill by the Orange Printshop in 1953, 389 pages with illustrations and an index; this copy is a later reprint.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1954).
A Traitor and a Scoundrel: Benjamin Hedrick and the Cost of Dissent
Smith, Michael Thomas · 2003 · University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses
Michael Thomas Smith's biography of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, the University of North Carolina chemistry professor dismissed in 1856 after he declared support for the antislavery presidential candidate John C. Fremont. Published by University of Delaware Press in 2003, 216 pages with illustrations. Topics include abolitionists and dissenters in North Carolina, the antislavery movement in the state, and the university's biography before 1962.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2005).
An Historical Address Delivered in Saint Matthew's Church, Hillsboro, N.C., on Sunday, August 24, 1924
Cheshire, Joseph Blount · 1925
Address by Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough on 24 August 1924, marking the parish's hundredth anniversary. Printed in Durham in 1925 at the vestry's order, with a foreword by the rector. Cheshire discusses George Micklejohn, William Mercer Green and Moses Ashley Curtis.
