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Morgan Against Attorney Gen.
RALEIGH State Sena
tor Robert Morgan of Lil
lington announced here
Wednesday that he will be
a candidate for North Ca
rolina’s Attorney General.
Referring to the office as
“the people's attorney,”
Morgan's announcement set
the stage for a lively pri
mary contest for the office.
Incumbent Wade Bruton
has already paid his filing
fee to run again. Both
Morgan and Bruton are
Democrats.
Morgan’s statement that
he will seek the office
came as no surprise. He
told a press conference at
the Sir Walter Hotel that
he had been considering
the race for some time.
“North Carolinians are
demanding as never be
fore,'' 'he told reporters,
• “more vigorous, more im
aginative, more aggressive
and more capable leader
ship. I am challenged by
their demands and thus
moved to seek this of
fice.”
He pledged, if elected,
to “exert this kind Os lead-
Concert Slated
By State Band
High school students in
Edenton - Chowan Schools
will attend a concert by
the N. C. State University
Symphonic Band at Ernest
A. Swain Elementary
School auditorium at 2
P. M. today (Thursday).
This is another in a
series of fine arts pro
grams arranged by the
Arts and Humanities De
partment, headed by Mrs.
James Partin.
The 78 - member band
played in Jacksonville and
Washington Wednesday and
goes from Edenton to Ches
apeake, Va., for an 8 P. M.
concert at Indian River
High School. The 1968
concert tour ends at 2
P. M. Friday at Park
View High School in
South Hill, Va.
John T. Caldwell, N. C.
State chancellor, said the
“Symphonic Band is an
example of one of the
many groups which help
make college life at N. C.
State - more rewarding. We
sincerely trust- that all our
many friends will share
our pride in the accom
plishments of this out
standing organization.”
It is good beating proud
folks, for they will not
complain.
—John Clarke.
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crship myself and demand
it as well from all those
who serve on the staff of
the Attorney General or in
the agencies for which he
is responsible.”
Morgan has served
five terms in the North
Carolina Senate and was
elected president pro tern
by that body for the 1965
session. As chairman of
East Carolina University’s
board of trustees, Morgan
was the legislative leader
who carried the ball for
that institution’s bid for
university status.
His name is also closely
linked with efforts for bet
ter mental health facilities,
jail reform and he served
in 1965-66 as co-chairman
of the General Assembly’s
Legislative Research Com
mission.
Morgan gained state
wide prominence in 1960
when he managed Bever
ly Lake’s campaign for
Governor in the Demo
cratic primaries. Lake is
now a member of the State
Supreme Court.
Morgan, a native of Har
nett County, is a practic
ing attorney. He was first
elected to public office in
1950 when Harnett voters
elected him as clerk of Su
perior Court while he was
still in law school at Wake
Forest University. He com
pleted law school a month
after his victory at the
polls.
He was first elected to
the State Senate in 1955,
and he served in the 1959,
1963, 1965 and 1967 ses
sions.
He is married to the
former Katie Earle Owen
of Roseboro and they have
two daughters, Margaret
Anne, age 6; Mary Eliza
beth, age 5, and a foster
son, Rupert, age 17.
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