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Senate Years of Service: 1986-1993 Party: Democrat
SANFORD, (James) Terry, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Laurinburg, N.C., August 20, 1917;
attended Presbyterian Junior College; graduated, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1939;
graduated, University of North Carolina Law School 1946; special agent, Federal Bureau of
Investigation 1941-1942; parachute infantry, United States Army 1942-1945; North Carolina
National Guard 1948-1960; assistant director, Institute of Government, University of North Carolina
1946-1948; lawyer in private practice 1948-1960, 1965-1969, 1985-1986; North Carolina State
senator 1953-1955; Governor of North Carolina 1961-1965; president of Duke University
1969-1985; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on November 4, 1986, for the
unexpired term of John East ending January 3, 1987, and for the six-year term ending January 3, 1993,
and served from November 5, 1986, to January 3, 1993; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1992; chairman, Select Committee on Ethics (1992); resumed the practice of law in North Carolina
and Washington, D.C.; died in Durham, N.C. on April 18, 1998; interment in Duke University
Chapel.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Covington, Howard E., Jr., and Marion A. Ellis, Terry Sanford: Politics,
Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999; Sanford,
Terry. But What About the People? New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
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