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Collection: COLTRANE, DAVID S., Papers
1931, 1937-1969
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Physical Description: Ca. 1,450 items, consisting of correspondence, speeches,;
newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, reports, obituaries, tele¬
grams, and scrapbook.
Acquisition: Gift of Mrs. David S. Coltrane,
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Raleigh.
Received, November, 1969; accessioned, 29 July 1970.
| Description: David Stanton Coltrane was born in 1893 in Randolph County.
I After receiving his education at Guilford College and the Agricultural
| and Mechanical College [North Carolina State University], he became a
* county farm agent. When his friend W. Kerr Scott became commissioner of
S agriculture in 1937, Coltrane became the assistant commissioner. This
1 position was the first in a long career of governmental service under six
governors in three different areas — agriculture (assistant commissioner of
agriculture under Cherry), finance and administration (budget officer under
Scott, Umstead and Hodges, head of Department of Administration under
Hodges, and economic advisor and chairman of the Advisory Budget Commission
under Sanford), and human relations (chairman of the Good Neighbor Council
under Sanford and Moore). Coltrane died in 1968.
This collection is composed primarily of Coltrane's private papers.
The bulk of the collection is dated after 1966 and includes items relating
to his work in the Methodist church and personal letters regarding farm and
rental properties. Although some of the Items relate to his positions in
state government, very few give definite information concerning his acti¬
vities. More information is found concerning his earlier jobs. His inter¬
est In civil rights and the status of the Negro Is seen in some of the pa¬
pers— especially through copies of speeches and in letters praising hie
work in this field. [The public papers of Coltrane, created while chairman
of the Good Neighbor Council, remain with that agency and are open to the
public).
In the collection is a letter dated June 13, 1952, from Governor Kerr
