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1.Legislative Personalities - John Sprunt Hill by Lucas, Wade H. The State Vol. 1 Issue 38, Feb 1934
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In this continuing series of biographical sketches of members of the state legislature, Lucas discusses John Sprunt Hill, who represented Durham in the State Senate. Hill served ten years on the State Highway Commission and did not seek elective office until 1932, when he was sixty-three years old.
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44064
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"As the Carolina Inn celebrates its centennial year, a writer reflects on the stately hotel's long history as " The university's living room." A passion project of John Sprunt Hill, an 1889 alumnus of U.N.C., the inn was built and donated by the Hill family with the stipulation that profits after care and upkeep of the facility would go to the Wilson Library and in particular the North Carolina Collection. The first renovation of the facility occurred in the mid-1960s and in 1993, a much larger renovation occurred and was completed in 1995.
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13963
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Few men in North Carolina have had such a wide variety of experiences as businessman and public servant John Sprunt Hill in his 81 years.
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12545
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John Sprunt Hill is an initial member of the NORTH CAROLINA magazine Business Hall of Fame. He was a successful banker and philanthropist, having founded, among others, the Durham Bank & Trust Company. He was active in public service and in politics, serving a number of terms in the North Carolina General Assembly and as the first State Highway Commissioner.
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