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William Alexander Graham (September 5, 1804 – August 11, 1875) was a United States senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, a senator later in the Confederate States Senate from 1864 to 1865, the 30th governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and U.S. secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852, under President Millard Fillmore.
William A. Graham Jr. Farm. / 35.47861°N 81.06806°W / 35.47861; -81.06806. William A. Graham Jr. Farm is a historic home and farm located near Denver and Kidville, Lincoln County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1890, and is a two-story, three-bay, rectangular frame dwelling. The front facade features a large central ...
William Alexander Graham Jr. (December 26, 1839 – December 23, 1923) was a North Carolina legislator and state Commissioner of Agriculture. Biography [ edit ] Graham was born on December 26, 1839 [1] in Hillsborough, North Carolina , to William Alexander Graham (1804–1875) and Susannah Sarah Washington.
It was named for William A. Graham, United States Senator from North Carolina (1840–1843) and Governor of North Carolina (1845–1849). The first Graham County Courthouse was constructed in Robbinsville in 1874, but its floor collapsed two decades later while the building was packed during a murder trial.
William Graham was born in 1742 in Augusta County, Colony of Virginia. He was the son of Archibald Graham of Scotland. The younger Graham moved to the Province of North Carolina several years before the American Revolutionary War. There he was one of forty signers of the Tryon Resolves.
A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham set to stand inside the U.S. Capitol to represent North Carolina will be unveiled next week in a ceremony. House Speaker Mike Johnson, other congressional ...
William A. Graham Jr. 1908 – 1923 Democratic 9 William A. Graham III 1923 – 1937 Democratic 9 W. Kerr Scott: 1937 – 1948 Democratic 10 David S. Coltrane: 1948 – 1949 Democratic 11 Lynton Y. Ballentine: 1949 – 1964 Democratic 12 James Allen Graham: 1964 – 2000 Democratic 13 Meg Scott Phipps: 2001 – 2003 Democratic 14
SS William A. Graham (MC hull number 160) was a Liberty ship built by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company of Wilmington, North Carolina, and launched on 26 July 1942. One of over 2,700 cargo ships produced during an emergency shipbuilding program, William A. Graham was named for William Alexander Graham , a 19th-century governor of North ...