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Josephus Daniels
Josephus Daniels (May 18th, 1862 – January 15th, 1948) was an alumnus of the UNC Law School. He gained influence as publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer, including promoting the white supremacy campaign of 1898. Daniels served as the Secretary of the Navy during World War I and as an ambassador to Mexico.
J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton
J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton was born in Hillsborough, NC, on August 8, 1878. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia where he studied under William Dunning. He joined the history department at UNC in 1906, and became the head in 1908. He founded the Southern Historical Collection in 1930.
James Lee Love
James Lee Love (1860-1950) won the Phillips Mathematical Prize in 1882 while a student at UNC and graduated in 1884 as valedictorian and class president. He became a math professor at UNC from 1885 to 1889 and built a house for himself, his wife, and mother-in-law here. Leaving two years after its construction, the Love House is now the Center for the Study of the American South.
Matthias Manly
John Manning Jr.
John Manning Jr. (1830-1899) was born in Edenton, North Carolina. Educated at Edenton Academy and UNC-Chapel Hill, John Manning Jr. worked as a lawyer until the outbreak of the Civil War where he was first lieutenant of the Chatham Rifles and a delegate to the Secession Convention. After the war, he resumed practicing law and state politics, served on the UNC Board of Trustees for 20 years and as professor of law until his death.
John Washington Graham
Richard Henry Lewis
Robert Hall Bingham
Julian Shakespear Carr
Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924) attended the University of North Carolina from 1862 to 1864, but left for the Confederate Army. Following the Civil War, Carr accumulated great wealth in the tobacco industry, and he financially supported UNC and Trinity College, later renamed Duke University. Carr held white supremacist ideals, as evidenced in his dedication speech for the statue at UNC known as Silent Sam. From UNCs Carr Building to the town of Carrboro, his influence is visible in the local landscape.