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RICHARD ELTON THIGPEN
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PAPERS, 1950-1958, 1991
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UNCC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 187
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Collection Information |
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Biographical Note |
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Scope and Content Note/Container
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Photographs |
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Size:
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17 items (including 1 photograph, 4 vinyl disc recordings,
and 1 cassette). |
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Charlotte (N.C.). |
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| Bulk Dates: |
1950. |
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| Languages: |
English. |
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| Summary: |
Primarily material relating to Thigpen's work as Mecklenburg
County manager for Willis Smith in the 1950 U.S. Senate campaign. Includes
a scrapbook of clippings and four recordings of debates between Thigpen
and David McConnell, county manager of the opposing Frank Porter Graham
campaign. Also includes a report (1958) of the Study Committee for City-County
School Consolidation. |
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| Index Terms: |
Charlotte (N.C.)--History. |
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Charlotte Chamber of Commerce (Charlotte, N.C.). Study Committee
for City-County School Consolidation. |
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Elections--North Carolina--History--20th century. |
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Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972. |
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McConnell, David. |
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North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950. |
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Schools--North Carolina--Charlotte. |
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Schools--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County. |
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Smith, Willis, 1887-1953. |
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Thigpen, Richard Elton, 1900- . |
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United States. Congress. Senate--Elections, 1950. |
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| Sources: |
Gift of Richard E. Thigpen, Sr., 1992. |
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| Access: |
Unrestricted. |
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| Copyright: |
Not held by UNC Charlotte Library. |
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| Citation: |
Richard Elton Thigpen Papers, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte Library. |
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| Contact Information: |
For more information about this collection, please contact:
Special Collections Department
J. Murrey Atkins Library
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
E-mail: speccoll@email.uncc.edu
Telephone: (704) 687-2449
Fax: (704) 687-2232 |
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| Related Collections: |
Charlotte
Board of School Commissioners Records (Mss 1). |
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Mecklenburg
County Board of Education Records (Mss 2). |
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Oliver
Reagan Rowe Papers (Mss 47). |
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| Richard Elton Storm Thigpen was born on May
9, 1900 in Wilmington, N.C., to William Washington (1861-1927) and Katherine
Canaday Thigpen (1861-1928). The youngest of three children, he was educated
in the public schools of Wilmington. Thigpen was graduated from Trinity
College in 1922 and attended law school there from 1921 to 1923. In 1923
he was named Alumni Secretary at Trinity College, a position he held through
the institution's transition to Duke University. Thigpen passed the bar
examination in 1925 and, in 1929, he accepted a position as senior attorney
with the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals in Washington, D.C. Thigpen moved to
Charlotte in 1933 and set up a law practice specializing in taxation until
his retirement in 1976. He served as president of the North Carolina Bar
Association, 1948-49; Mecklenburg County chair for the U.S. Senate campaign
of Willis Smith, 1950; chair of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Study
Committee for City-County School Consolidation, 1957-58; and as a trustee
of Duke University, 1953-73. |
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| He married Dorathy Florence Dotger (1901-89)
of Charlotte on June 28, 1923. They had three children: Dorathy Dotger Thigpen
(1924-59); Harriet Thigpen (b. 1927); and Richard Elton Thigpen Jr. (b.
1930). Thigpen resides in Charlotte. |
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| [For more information, see Richard Elton Thigpen,
90 Years Into the Twentieth Century: The Autobiography of Richard Elton
Thigpen (Charlotte: Richard E. Thigpen, 1991).] |
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SCOPE AND CONTENT
NOTE/CONTAINER LIST
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| This collection documents primarily Thigpen's
role as campaign manager for Willis Smith during the later's bid for the
U.S. Senate in North Carolina in 1950. Also includes some material documenting
Thigpen's membership on the Study Committee for City-County School Consolidation
in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in 1958. The Richard E. Thigpen Papers
are organized into a single, alphabetical folder title series. |
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Contents |
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| SFC2:196 |
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION (1991): copy of an editorial about
Thigpen and his autobiography. |
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| SFC2:196 |
STUDY COMMITTEE FOR CITY-COUNTY SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION (1958):
includes report of the committee, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
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| P5:30 |
WILLIS SMITH U.S. SENATE CAMPAIGN--PHOTOGRAPH (1950): autographed
photograph (P187/1) of Smith. |
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WILLIS SMITH U.S. SENATE CAMPAIGN--RECORDINGS (1950): includes
4 vinyl disc recordings of debates between Thigpen and David McConnell,
county manager for the Frank Porter Graham campaign. |
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| OF5:2-3 |
WILLIS SMITH U.S. SENATE CAMPAIGN--SCRAPBOOK (1950, 1953):
photocopy of scrapbook compiled by Thigpen to document his management of
Smith's campaign in Mecklenburg County. Includes obituary (1953) for Smith
in the New York Herald. |
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| RICHARD E. THIGPEN
PAPERS (Mss 187) |
| PHOTOGRAPHS--PRINTS (P) |
| BOX P17:3 |
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Description |
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| FOLDER P17:3 |
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| P187/1 |
Richard E. Thigpen (n.d.) |
