President of the University of North Carolina System
In office 1930–1949
Preceded by
Harry Woodburn Chase
Succeeded by
Gordon Gray
Personal details
Born
(1886-10-14)October 14, 1886 Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
Died
February 16, 1972(1972-02-16) (aged 85) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Marian Drane
Relatives
Moonlight Graham Edward Kidder Graham
Education
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA, LLB) Columbia University (MA)
Frank Porter Graham (October 14, 1886 – February 16, 1972) was an American educator and political activist. A professor of history, he was elected President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1930, and he later became the first President of the consolidated University of North Carolina system.
Graham was an active champion of many liberal causes including academic freedom, economic justice, civil rights, disarmament and world peace. He served on numerous advisory boards for Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and in 1949 he was appointed by the North Carolina governor to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate. His effort to win election in the following year turned into a bitter and ultimately unsuccessful struggle with conservative Democrat Willis Smith.
In 1951 he was appointed as a United Nations mediator for the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. He pursued that elusive goal for 16 years, and he continued his advocacy work on many other issues, until failing health forced him to retire from public life in 1967.
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