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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: U.S. District Court in North Carolina</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Meekins</a> 1925-45 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler1.html#214.08.74">Algernon L. Butler</a> 1959-75 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/larkins-larrain.html#284.92.51">John D. Larkins, Jr.</a> 1967 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupper-durgin.html#654.60.88">Franklin Taylor Dupree, Jr.</a> 1970-83 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#057.33.68">William Earl Britt</a> 1980-97 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyle.html#667.24.53">Terrence William Boyle</a> 1984- <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/detaranto-devin.html#075.29.70">James C. Dever III</a> 2005- <p> <b>Officeholding Events</b> <i>(may be incomplete!)</i><br> <li> 1882 Jan 6: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brooks.html#675.32.59">George Washington Brooks</a>, died in office. <li> 1897 Feb 19: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#366.83.36">Augustus Sherrill Seymour</a>, died in office. <li> 1908 Dec 19: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purchio-puthuff.html#492.88.18">Thomas Richard Purnell</a>, died in office. <li> 1945 Feb 13: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#555.27.31">Isaac M. Meekins</a>, took senior status. <li> 1975 Aug 2: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler1.html#214.08.74">Algernon L. Butler</a>, took senior status. <li> 1983 Dec 31: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupper-durgin.html#654.60.88">Franklin Taylor Dupree, Jr.</a>, took senior status. <li> 1997 Dec 7: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#057.33.68">William Earl Britt</a>, took senior status. <p> <b>U.S. District Judges for the Middle District of North Carolina, 1957-2017</b> <i>(may be incomplete!)</i><br> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanley.html#570.86.83">Edwin M. Stanley</a> 1957-71 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preswick-pribble.html#727.43.84">L. Richardson Preyer</a> 1961-63 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gordon.html#656.92.74">Eugene Andrew Gordon</a> 1964-82 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward4.html#739.03.36">Hiram Hamilton Ward</a> 1972-88 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#824.21.62">Richard Cannon Erwin</a> 1980-92 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bullock.html#135.27.76">Frank William Bullock, Jr.</a> 1982- <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beaty-bechtold.html#477.96.12">James A. Beaty, Jr.</a> 1994- <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schroeder.html#695.02.99">Thomas D. Schroeder</a> 2008- <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eachus-earlston.html#555.98.88">Catherine Caldwell Eagles</a> 2010- <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bigger-bikar.html#301.99.12">Loretta Copeland Biggs</a> 2014- <p> <b>Officeholding Events</b> <i>(may be incomplete!)</i><br> <li> 1971 Dec 23: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanley.html#570.86.83">Edwin M. Stanley</a>, died in office. <li> 1982 Jul 12: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gordon.html#656.92.74">Eugene Andrew Gordon</a>, took senior status. <li> 1988 Aug 20: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward4.html#739.03.36">Hiram Hamilton Ward</a>, took senior status. <li> 1992 Sep 22: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#824.21.62">Richard Cannon Erwin</a>, took senior status. <p> <b>U.S. District Judges for the Western District of North Carolina, 1898-2017</b> <i>(may be incomplete!)</i><br> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/everette-ewin.html#600.12.67">Hamilton G. Ewart</a> 1898-99 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/everette-ewin.html#600.12.67">Hamilton G. Ewart</a> 1899-1900 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyd.html#129.83.29">James E. Boyd</a> 1900-19 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webb.html#368.21.08">Edwin Y. Webb</a> 1919-48 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#336.94.29">David E. Henderson</a> 1948-49 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craven.html#687.51.93">J. Braxton Craven, Jr.</a> 1961-66 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcmillan.html#337.23.85">James B. McMillan</a> 1968-89 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sena-serphin.html#160.98.50">David Bryan Sentelle</a> 1985-87 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mullen.html#018.86.25">Graham Calder Mullen</a> 1990-2005 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinnon-mclaud.html#255.65.67">H. Brent McKnight</a> 2003-04 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrad.html#225.42.32">Robert James Conrad, Jr.</a> 2005- <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coffinburg-cohelan.html#442.06.47">Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr.</a> 2011- <p> <b>Officeholding Events</b> <i>(may be incomplete!)</i><br> <li> 1949 Feb 14: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#336.94.29">David E. Henderson</a>, resigned. <li> 1989 Sep 1: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcmillan.html#337.23.85">James B. McMillan</a>, took senior status. <li> 2004 Nov 27: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinnon-mclaud.html#255.65.67">H. Brent McKnight</a>, died in office. <li> 2005 Dec 1: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mullen.html#018.86.25">Graham Calder Mullen</a>, took senior status. </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</span></td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <br clear="all"> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a></b> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:8pt;"> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are <b>incomplete</b>; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is <b>not</b> guaranteed. 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