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- State
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- January 03 1953
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Tar Heels in Washington
Democrats have played a major role in
Democratic administrations for the past
20 years.
For ISO years. North Carolina has
had its Washington, a river-front town
in Beaufort County.
For 20 years. Washington, D. C.
has had its North Carolina, a steady
parade of Tar Heels marching into
some of the highest offices that Presi¬
dents Roosevelt and Truman had to
offer.
The Republican victory is certain
to slow down that 20-ycar parade to a
halting walk, perhaps for a while even
bringing it to a full stop.
For the Tar Heel show of strength
in top appointive jobs in Washington
was a Democratic production.
Few states in the nation have been
called upon more often to furnish men
that the two Democratic Chief Execu¬
tives wanted on their New Deal and
Fair Deal teams.
Some say that even the “Missouri
Waltz" and "Sidewalks of New York"
never lopped "Carolina Moon" on the
presidential hit parade.
Slate’s Second Largest
And there are those who claim that
Washington. D. C., is the second larg¬
est city in North Carolina.
Lindsay Warren for 13 years has been
Comptroller-general.
By MARJORIE HEATER
Winston-Salem Journal
While exaggerated, the claim isn't
entirely baseless, for the exodus from
North Carolina to Washington in the
past 20 years has reached up in the
thousands — officials, their families and
lesser government workers.
Some North Carolinians went for a
short while, some remained in the na¬
tion's capital city after dropping out
of the Democratic parade that was led
by a man who already knew his way
around the political corridors of gov¬
ernment.
Josephus Daniels. Raleigh editor
and Secretary of the Navy under
Woodrow Wilson, was called to Wash¬
ington by President Roosevelt early
in 1933 and offered the post of Am¬
bassador to Mexico. From then until
he resigned in 1941. Editor Daniels
was Ambassador Daniels.
Twin City Representative
Mr. Daniels’ appointment was only
the beginning of the Washington call
for North Carolina help, with Winston-
Salem leading the entire state in turn-
idling top officials.
J. Crawford Biggs of Raleigh served
as Solicitor General from 1933 until
1935 by appointment of President
Roosevelt.
Frank McNinch of Charlotte was
named Chairman of the Federal Com¬
munications Commission by President
Roosevelt and served from 1933 until
1939. He was the President's personal
representative to the Executive Coun¬
cil of the World Power Conference
in The Hague in 1935.
Carland Ferguson of Greensboro
served by Roosevelt appointment as
Chairman of the Federal Trade Com¬
mission from 1933 until retiring in
1949.
In 1934 President Roosevelt turned
to the University of North Carolina for
a historian to fill the newly created
post of Archivist of the United States.
Dr. R. D. W. Connor received the
appointment and served until 1941
when he retired and returned to Chapel
Hill.
The late Josephus Daniels served FDR
as Ambassador to Mexico. He also was
Secretary of Navy for Wilson.
S. Clay Williams of Winston-Salem
served as chairman of the National
Recovery Administration (NRA) in
1934-35 by appointment of President
Roosevelt. Earlier, also by presidential
appointment he was Chairman of In¬
dustry for the National Labor Board
in early New Deal days.
In 1 938. President Roosevelt ap¬
pointed John W. Hanes of Winston-
Salem (now of New York City) as
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
then a few months later named him
Under Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.
Hanes resigned in 1939.
The same year, the President ap¬
pointed Frank Hancock of Oxford,
former Representative from the Fifth
District, as a member of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board In 194S
North Carolina supplied another mem¬
ber of the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board. That year President Truman
THE STATE. January 3. 1953
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