Alexander H. Graham

Alexander Hawkins "Sandy" Graham (born August 9, 1890 in Hillsborough , North Carolina , †  April 3, 1977 ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1937 he was lieutenant governor of the state of North Carolina.

Career

Alexander Graham was the grandson of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875), who was among other things governor of North Carolina and US senator . After graduating from Harvard University with a law degree and admission to the bar, he began working in the profession. During the First World War he served in the US Army . Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . Between 1921 and 1930 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina , whose speaker he was in 1929.

In 1932 Graham was elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina alongside John Ehringhaus . He held this office between 1933 and 1937. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . In the gubernatorial elections of 1936 he ran unsuccessfully in his party's primary elections. In July 1940, he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the third time as a presidential candidate. Graham was a substitute delegate to the following two federal party conventions of the Democrats in 1944 and 1948. From 1945 to 1949 and again between 1953 and 1957 he headed the State Highway and Public Works Commission . He died on April 3, 1977 and was buried in his native Hillsborough.

Web links

• Alexander H. Graham in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Alexander H. Graham at The Political Graveyard
• Alexander H. Graham Papers