biography
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Aycock, Charles Brantley
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| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1912)
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| biography:
| US governor, born in Fremont (formerly Nahunta), Wayne Co, North Carolina, USA. A Goldsboro lawyer, he served as a US attorney general in North Carolina (1893–7). As Democratic governor (1901–5), he established a literacy test to remove black voters from the rolls, while funding new school construction and teacher training for whites. He later returned to his law practice. |
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