Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972

Authoritative Name:
Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972
Biography:
Senator from North Carolina; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., October 14, 1886; attended the public schools of Charlotte and the preparatory academy at Warrenton, N.C.; graduated, University of North Carolina 1909; studied law at the University of North Carolina and received license to practice in 1913; received a graduate degree at Columbia University, New York City in 1916; high school English instructor in Raleigh, N.C., 1910-1912; instructor, assistant professor, and professor of history, University of North Carolina 1915-1930; during the First World War enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps in June 1917 and was discharged in July 1919 as a first lieutenant; returned to the University of North Carolina and became president 1930-1949; served on the Consumers Board of National Recovery Administration, the National Advisory Council to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Security, the President’s Committee on Education, the Industries Committee of American Railroads, the National Defense Mediation Board, the National War Labor Board, the Maritime War Emergency Board, and the Good Offices Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations on Indonesia; adviser to the Secretary of State on Indonesian Affairs in 1948; appointed on March 29, 1949, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Melville Broughton and served from March 29, 1949, to November 26, 1950; unsuccessful candidate for the nomination in 1950 to fill the vacancy; United Nations mediator and United Nations representative to India and Pakistan in the Kashmir dispute; chairman, North Carolina Tercentenary Celebration Commission 1963; retired from the United Nations in 1967 because of ill health and returned to Chapel Hill, N.C., where he died February 16, 1972; interment in Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.--Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Associated Subjects:
Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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Sharecroppers, correspondence and printed materials, 1965, 1967

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)
Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972
Bennett, Fay
Southern Consumers' Cooperative
Southern Consumers' Education Foundation
Date of Original:
1965
1967
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Modjeska Simkins Papers, General Papers, 1940-1949

Creator:
Simkins, Modjeska Monteith, 1899-1992
Date of Original:
1940/1949
Collection:
Modjeska Monteith Simkins Papers, 1909-1992
Contributing Institution:
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Oral history interview with Calvin Kytle, January 19, 1991

Creator:
Kytle, Calvin
Date of Original:
1991-01-19
Collection:
Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Oral history interview with Charles M. Jones, July 21, 1990

Creator:
Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993
Date of Original:
1990-07-21
Collection:
Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Oral history interview with Charles M. Jones, November 8, 1976

Creator:
Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993
Date of Original:
1976-11-08
Collection:
Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Oral history interview with Clark Foreman, November 16, 1974

Creator:
Foreman, Clark, 1902-1977
Date of Original:
1974-11-16
Collection:
Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Oral history interview with Cornelia Spencer Love, January 26, 1975

Creator:
Love, Cornelia Spencer, 1892-
Date of Original:
1975-01-26
Collection:
Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Oral history interview with David Burgess, September 25, 1974

Creator:
Burgess, David S., 1917-
Date of Original:
1974-09-25
Collection:
Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
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