A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their University

by Willis P. Whichard

Shortly before David Lowry Swain's thirty-second birthday, the North Carolina General Assembly elected him the state's twenty-sixth governor. He remains its youngest. In the context of his time he was an activist executive, prodding the state to develop its infrastructure, thereby promoting economic development, which in turn would sustain universal public education (although then for white males only). As Swain's constitutionally limited time as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469684039
• ISBN13: 9781469684031
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Unc at Chapel Hill Library
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"