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In 1933, Wilson Vashon Eagleson Sr. was killed in a car accident in West Virginia, where he taught chemistry at West Virginia State College [11] In 1934, Eagleson II moved from Bloomington to Durham, North Carolina to live with his grieving mother. Eagleson II attended high school in Henderson, North Carolina. [3]
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 ...
Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918 – September 8, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. [ 2 ]
North Carolina's 4th congressional district is located in the central region of the state. The district includes all of Alamance County, Durham County, Granville County, and Orange County, as well as a portion of Caswell County. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+16, it is the most Democratic district in North Carolina. [2]
Durham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 324,833, [1] making it the sixth-most populous county in North Carolina.
The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) is a two-year, public residential high school with two physical campuses located in Durham, North Carolina, and Morganton, North Carolina, that focuses on the intensive study of science, mathematics and technology.
The Omaha, Nebraska chapter of the Hells Angels granted a charter to the Storm Troopers biker gang of Durham, which became North Carolina's first Hells Angels chapter on July 24, 1973. [ 248 ] [ 249 ] This was then followed by the "patch over" of the Tar Hell Stompers to form the Charlotte chapter, which was chartered on October 19, 1978.
George Wallace in the North Carolina Democratic presidential primary on March 23, 1976, with approximately 53% of the vote to Wallace's 35%. Sen. Scoop Jackson trailed far behind, with approximately 4%. [4] The North Carolina primary was the first in which Carter won an absolute majority and helped seal his ultimate nomination. [5]