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George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
Pages in category "Actresses from North Carolina" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Male actors from North Carolina" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Herbert Hyde, North Carolina Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives; Bill Jackson, Georgia State Senate and Georgia House of Representatives; Horace R. Kornegay, U.S. House of Representatives; Helen Morris Lewis, suffragist who was the first woman in North Carolina to seek elected office, Esther Manheimer, mayor of Asheville
Calvin Jones (1775–1846), Mayor of Raleigh, Adjutant General of North Carolina, and founder of Wake Forest College [19] I. Beverly Lake, former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court; Clarence Lightner (1921–2002), mayor (1973–1975); Raleigh's first popularly elected African-American mayor and first of any major Southern city
Franklin McCain, one of The Greensboro Four, African-American student from North Carolina A&T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in; action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States; attended Dudley [79] Courtney McClellan, interdisciplinary artist [80]
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Ben Elbert Douglas, Sr., mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina 1935–1941; Anthony Foxx, 17th United States Secretary of Transportation, and mayor of Charlotte (2009–2013) Jim Gulley, member of the North Carolina General Assembly [14] Richard Hudson, United States Representative for North Carolina's 8th congressional district