Education:

 
   

High school:

• Rock Ridge High School

College:

• Oak Ridge Military Institute
• Atlantic Christian College
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Extended Education:

 
• Various Seminars
• Intensive Training in Sales & Sales
• Psychology
• Numerous courses in Insurance and Real Estate
   

Civic Activities:

 
• Member, Farm Bureau
• Listed in "Who’s Who in America" (2020)
• Past Chairman, W.C.T.C. Insurance Advisory Board
• Member, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
• Member, North Carolina Sheriff's Association (Honorary)
• Member, Travelers Protection Association
•Member, State Capitol Society
• Member, Wilson Humane Society
• Member, Habitat for Humanity
• Member, Friends of the Library
• Past Member, The Mayor's Committee on the Handicapped
• Member, General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Member, Wilson County Pomona Grange
• Member, North Carolina State Grange
• Member, National Grange (Seventh Degree)
• Past President, Wilson County Society for Crippled Children and Adults
• Past President, Wilson County Hemophilia
• Past President, Wilson County March of Dimes
• Past President, Wilson County Arthritis Association
• Recipient of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine
   

Business Activities:

 
  • Insurance and Real Estate Brokerage and Sales
  • Member, North Carolina Business Advisory Council
  • Co-Founder, State Insurance Services, Inc.
  • Member, Board of Directors, S.I.S.I.
  • Past Business Experience Includes But not limited to:
 

Sales Management, as Director, Manager, General Agent, Managing General Agent,

 

Regional Director and Regional Director of Sales Training. 

  • Six years in Judicial Branch of Government
  • Four years Town Clerk of Sims, NC
   

Religious Affiliation:

 
  • Communicant St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
  • Wilson, North Carolina
   

Political Activities:

 
  • Past Chairman, North Carolina Chiropractic Political Action Committee (CPAC)
  • Past Member, Board of Directors, North Carolina Chiropractic Political Action Committee
• Past President, Wilson County Young Democrats
  • Past Chairman Second, Congressional District Young Democrats
  • Delegate State Young Democrats Conventions (1956-1976)
  • Wilson County Democratic Party Executive Committee
  • Wilson County Democratic Party Precinct Chairman
  • Contributing Member Democratic National Committee
  • Past Member, President's Club, National Democratic Party
  • Member Democratic Leadership Council
  • Member, North Carolina Democratic Party State Executive Committee
  • Delegate to North Carolina State Democratic Conventions (1956-2020)
   
 

 

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