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Representative Folger and his office staff, Miss Naomi Brown, of Oxford, assistant secretary, and Harvey Lupton, the young Winston-Salem attorney who came to Washington as secretary to Lon Folger and was reappointed by the new congressman. John H. Folger ll<k«i<l of ilio in 1110 ms Folger po¬ litical clan in Surry County, \orlli Carolina's newest Con¬ gressman lias lia«l an active anil successful career in liotli tlie legal and political professions. Ri/ KOIfiFKT ERWIN THE namo of Folger has Ьссошо one In lie reckoned with in North Carolina politics. First associ¬ ated with Surry County, home of the Folger family, its service and prestige have spread from tin* Courthouse at DoIkoii and this City Hall at Mt. Airy to tho State Capitol at Raleigh and thence to the Capitol of the Fnited States in Washington. John 11. Folger is and always lias been the head of the Folger political clan, as well a* n practicing attorney who gained fame for his forensic I towers in the courtrooms of the state. Vet, lie is the second Folger in Con¬ gress, having succeeded his younger brother, Lon, who was killed in an automobile accident in May, as Rep¬ resentative from the Fifth District. The political career of John Folger covers a spun of almost 40 years — years in which be lias seen and helped the Democratic party achieve perma¬ nent supremacy over the Republicans in North Carolina, and years in which be acquired political acumen and ex- C пенсе which have made him, like s brother Lon, the political mentor of many of the state’s public men. Mr. Folger, who was elected to bis brother’s unexpired Congressional term in a special election on June 14, was born in Rockford, once the county seat of Surry County, at the time Yadkin County was still a part of Surry. He is the son of a lawyer, the late Thomas Wilson Folger, and Ada Dillard Robertson Folger. In bis younger days, be went to school and studied under the noted Quaker pro¬ fessor, Zeno II. Dixon, at Yadkin- villc, a teacher termed by Mr. Folger “one of the I test who ever lived.” It was at the Dixon School, incidentally, that the future politico and Congress¬ man met bis future wife, Miss Mar¬ garet Douglas, of Yndkinvillc. By bis achievements in the class¬ room at Dixon's, Mr. Folger earned a scholarship to Guilford College. Later, after studying at (Juilford, lie decided to follow in his father’s foot¬ steps and become a lawyer, so lie en¬ tered the University of North Caro¬ lina Law School. He also studied the law books in his father's office in Dob¬ son. He left the University in 1001, three months before bis impending graduation, to join his father in practice. "1 decided,” the Congressman said in discussing bis college days, “that I did not want to lie called a college graduate, because too much might have been expected of me." Thus began a successful legal career that led John Folger into the political arena. It was not long before bo be¬ came a widely known trial lawyer, a legal orator noted for a silver tongue that was known to influence many а jury in its final decision on a ease before the bar of justice. An interesting sidelight on Mr. Folger'e ability was offered by a re¬ cent visitor to his office in Washing¬ ton, Roy II. l'ark, of Raleigh, editor of the Carolina Coopcralor and native of Dobson. “When I was a boy,” Mr. l’ark related, ‘‘I never failed to go to the Superior Court Room in the court¬ house whenever I heard that Mr. Folger and Porter Graves were on opposite sides of a ease and were going to argue it before a jury. My friends and I looked on them as feature attractions.” Keen Interest in Politics Speaking of the family's political activities, Representative Folger said "everyone of us is politically minded, except Will.” Will Folger. it might be added here, has achieved success as Chief Bank Examiner of the United