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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North Carolina(James) Terry SANFORD
(1917-1998)
Senate Years of Service:
1986-1993Party: DemocratSANFORD, (James) Terry, a
Senator from North Carolina; born in Laurinburg, N.C., August 20,
1917; attended Presbyterian Junior College; graduated, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1939; graduated, University of
North Carolina Law School 1946; special agent, Federal Bureau of
Investigation 1941-1942; parachute infantry, United States Army
1942-1945; North Carolina National Guard 1948-1960; assistant
director, Institute of Government, University of North Carolina
1946-1948; lawyer in private practice 1948-1960, 1965-1969,
1985-1986; North Carolina State senator 1953-1955; Governor of
North Carolina 1961-1965; president of Duke University 1969-1985;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on November 4,
1986, for the unexpired term of John East ending January 3, 1987,
and for the six-year term ending January 3, 1993, and served from
November 5, 1986, to January 3, 1993; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1992; chairman, Select Committee on Ethics (1992);
resumed the practice of law in North Carolina and Washington, D.C.;
died in Durham, N.C. on April 18, 1998; interment in Duke
University Chapel.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Covington, Howard
E., Jr., and Marion A. Ellis, Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress,
and Outrageous Ambitions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999;
Sanford, Terry. But What About the People? New York: Harper
& Row, 1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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