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Drew Springer Jr. (born 1966), member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 68 (North Texas and eastern South Plains) Barbara Staff (1924–2019), co-chairman of 1976 Ronald Reagan Texas presidential primary campaign; Sylvia Stanfield (born 1943), diplomat; Robert Stanton (born 1940), director of National Park Service
Eva Clayton (born 1934), U.S. Congresswoman from North Carolina 1992–2003; she graduated from Johnson C. Smith University and North Carolina Central University Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American Book Award-winning author of Blood Run and other novels (raised in North Carolina, various counties)
David Funderburk (born 1944), U.S. Ambassador to Romania (1981–1985); member, United States House of Representatives from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district (1995–1997); former professor, Hardin–Simmons University; Larry Gatlin (born 1948), actor; singer-songwriter
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Clayton, New York and Clayton, North Carolina – John M. Clayton (U.S. Senator from Delaware) [135] Cleburne, Texas – Patrick Cleburne (Confederate general) [139] Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin) Cleveland, North Carolina and Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland [140] [139]
The first published Texian list of casualties was in the March 24, 1836 issue of the Telegraph and Texas Register. The 115 names were supplied by John W. Smith and Gerald Navan, [ 17 ] who historian Thomas Ricks Lindley believed likely drew from their own memories, as well as from interviews with those who might have left or tried to enter. [ 18 ]
Susan C. Fisher, North Carolina House of Representatives; D. Bruce Goforth, North Carolina House of Representatives; V. Lamar Gudger, United States House of Representatives; Bill Hendon (1944–2018), author, POW/MIA activist, and two-term U.S. Congressman from North Carolina; Patricia Hollingsworth Holshouser (1939–2006), First Lady of North ...
Jim Hunt, former 69th and 71st Governor of North Carolina [55] John Inman, professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour [56] John Isner, professional tennis player [57] Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist, minister, politician, attended and graduated from North Carolina A&T University [58]