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James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was a politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the Governor of North Carolina (1961–1965), a two-time US Presidential candidate in the 1970s and a U.S. Senator (1986–1993). Sanford was a strong proponent of education and introduced a number of reforms and new programs in North Carolina's schools and institutions of higher learning as the state's governor, increasing funding for education and establishing the North Carolina Fund. From 1969–1985, Sanford was President of Duke University.
An Eagle Scout as a youth, Sanford became an FBI agent after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1939. During Worl War II, he saw combat in the European Theater. He enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army and later attained the rank of First Lieutenant through a battlefield commission. He parachuted into France with the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment and subsequently fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his bravery and wounds. Sanford was honorably discharged in 1946. Sanford later served as a company commander with the rank of Captain in Company K of the 119th Infantry Regiment of the North Carolina Army National Guard from 1948 to 1960.
Following his return to civilian life after World War II, Sanford attended and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law and began a legal career in the late 1940s, soon becoming involved in politics. A lifelong Democrat, he was noted for his progressive leadership in civil rights and education; although his opponents criticized him as a “tax-and-spend” liberal, Sanford is remembered as a major public figure of the South after World War II.


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