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Frank Porter Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (154 words) |
 | Frank Porter Graham (14 October 1886 - 16 February 1972) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1949 and 1950. |
| Graham served as president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1930 to 1949; the students' union building at the university is named in his honor. |
| Graham's brother, Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham, was popularized in the 1989 film Field of Dreams. |
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| Frank P. Graham was the last president of UNC as a single-campus institution at Chapel Hill and the first to head its multi-campus successor, serving from 1931 until 1949, when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Gov. W. |
| Graham was named University president in 1930, over his repeated protests that his place was in the history classroom, not in an administrator's office. |
| Graham was married to the former Marian Drane, a teacher and daughter of an Episcopal rector. |
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