| Abstract |
Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and legal and financial files. The bulk of the correspondence reflects Phillips's second term as state senator and his membership of the Committee on Teachers and State Employees Retirement; Education, Appropriations, Insurance, and Judiciary committees. Topics include the North Carolina public school system; state personnel issues; nutrition and the State Board of Health; trade at Wilmington and Morehead City, N.C.; wildlife legislation; appropriations to East Carolina College; and taxation. General correspondence topics include Davidson County politics; the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment; crops, including cotton; child welfare; a C.C.C. camp in Davidson County; and Linville Caverns. Other items include American Legion minutes of the France Convention Investigating Committee (1928) and a roster of officers in the 321st and 161st Infantry brigades. |
| Access restriction | Joyner- No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Wade H. Phillips Papers (#59), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Joyner- Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mrs. R. M. Middleton and Mrs. Wade H. Phillips. |
| Biographical note | Wade Hampton Phillips (1879-1968) was born in Davidson County, N.C., on July 7, 1879. He served as chairman of the Davidson County Democratic Committee (1906-1910). In 1912 Phillips was elected as a state senator. In 1916, as a major in the 120th Infantry of the National Guard, he served on the Mexican border when Pancho Villa threatened the area. He later obtained the rank of lieutenant colonel and served on General John Pershing's staff as judge advocate of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I (1917-1919). In 1924 Governor McLean appointed him as the first director of the new North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development. In 1948 he was again elected to the state Senate. In his later years he served on the Davidson County Board of Education and was the local historian for Davidson County. |
