Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 10th district
In office January 22, 1946 – January 3, 1947
Preceded by
Joseph Ervin
Succeeded by
Hamilton C. Jones
Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the Burke County district
In office 1931–1933
Preceded by
John Mull
Succeeded by
Francis Garrou
In office 1923–1927
Preceded by
Joseph Cooper
Succeeded by
John Giles
Personal details
Born
Samuel James Ervin Jr.
(1896-09-27)September 27, 1896 Morganton, North Carolina, U.S.
Died
April 23, 1985(1985-04-23) (aged 88) Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Margaret Bruce Bell
(m. 1924)
Children
3, including Samuel
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) Harvard University (LLB)
Awards
Distinguished Service Cross
Silver Star
Purple Heart (2)
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Branch/service
United States Army
Years of service
1917–1919
Rank
Private
Unit
28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
Battles/wars
World War I
Watergate scandal
The Watergate complex in 2006
Events
List
Presidency of Richard Nixon
Timeline
Nixon White House tapes
Operation Sandwedge
Operation Gemstone
1972 presidential election
"Saturday Night Massacre"
Impeachment process against Richard Nixon
United States v. Nixon
Resignation speech
Inauguration of Gerald Ford
People
Watergate burglars
Bernard Barker
Virgilio Gonzalez
Eugenio Martínez
James W. McCord Jr.
Frank Sturgis
Groups
Master list of Nixon's political opponents
Nixon's Enemies List
Watergate Babies
Watergate Seven
White House Plumbers
CRP
Committee for the Re-Election of the President
Fred LaRue
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Robert Mardian
John N. Mitchell
Kenneth Parkinson
Hugh W. Sloan Jr.
Maurice Stans
White House
Richard Nixon
Alexander Butterfield
Charles Colson
John Dean
John Ehrlichman
Gerald Ford
H. R. Haldeman
E. Howard Hunt
Egil Krogh
G. Gordon Liddy
Gordon C. Strachan
Rose Mary Woods
Judiciary
Archibald Cox
Leon Jaworski
John Sirica
Journalists
Carl Bernstein
Bob Woodward
Barry Sussman
Harry M. Rosenfeld
Howard Simons
Ben Bradlee
Katharine Graham
Lesley Stahl
The Washington Post
Intelligence community
Mark Felt ("Deep Throat")
L. Patrick Gray
Richard Helms
James R. Schlesinger
Congress
Howard Baker
Sam Ervin
Peter W. Rodino
U.S. Senate Watergate Committee
Impeachment process
Related
Frank Wills (security guard)
James F. Neal (prosecutor)
All the President's Men (book, film)
The Final Days (book, film)
Blind Ambition (miniseries)
Dick (1999 film)
Mark Felt: The Man who Brought Down the White House (2017 film)
Watergate (2019 board game)
Slow Burn (2020 series)
Gaslit (2022 series)
White House Plumbers (2023 miniseries)
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Samuel James Ervin Jr. (September 27, 1896 – April 23, 1985) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A Southern Democrat, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl.[1] During his Senate career, Ervin was at first a staunch defender of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, as the South's constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights.[2][3] However, unexpectedly, he became a liberal hero for his support of civil liberties.[4] He is remembered for his work in the investigation committees that brought down Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and especially for his leadership of the Senate committee's investigation of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.[5][6]
^Cite error: The named reference countrylawyer was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Campbell (2007)
^Sawyer, Logan (2021). "Originalism from the Soft Southern Strategy to the New Right: The Constitutional Politics of Sam Ervin Jr". Journal of Policy History. 33 (1): 32–59. doi:10.1017/S0898030620000238. ISSN 0898-0306. S2CID 231694120.
^"Senator Sam Ervin - The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
^"Sam Ervin: A Featured Biography". United States Senate.
^"Former Sen. Sam Ervin, 88, Watergte Folk Hero, Dies". Los Angeles Times. 24 April 1985. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
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