Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham County,North Carolina,United States. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census,making Chapel Hill the 17th-most populous municipality in the state. Chapel Hill and Durham make up the Durham-Chapel Hill,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area,which had an estimated population of 608,879 in 2023. When it's combined with Raleigh,the state capital,they make up the corners of the Research Triangle,which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill,North Carolina,United States. Chartered in 1789,the university first began enrolling students in 1795,making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States.
Erskine Boyce Bowles is an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina. He served as the 19th White House Chief of Staff from January 1997 to October 1998,under President Bill Clinton,and as the president of the University of North Carolina system from 2005 to 2010. He also ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2002 and 2004 to represent North Carolina.
William Wilfred Cobey Jr. is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he served one term in the United States House of Representatives for North Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1985 to 1987.
Frank Porter Graham was an American educator and political activist. A professor of history,he was elected President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1930,and he later became the first President of the consolidated University of North Carolina system.
Douglas Carmichael "Mike" McIntyre II is an American attorney and politician who was first elected to represent North Carolina's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He served for 18 years from 1997 to 2015. McIntyre is a Democrat and,during his tenure in the House of Representatives,was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition.
James Andrew Wynn Jr. is an American jurist. He serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and formerly served on both the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court.
William Robert Webb also known as "Sawney" Webb,was an educator who founded the Webb School and served briefly as a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee.
Francis Preston Venable was a chemist,educator,and president of the University of North Carolina (UNC).
Old East is a residence hall located at the north part of campus in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Built in 1793 by slave labor,it became the first state university building in the United States. The Wren Building at the College of William &Mary in Williamsburg,Virginia,was built in 1695,but William and Mary did not become a public university until 1906.
Richard Thurmond Chatham,who usually went by Thurmond Chatham,was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives,an industrialist and philanthropist. He represented North Carolina from 1949 to 1957.
Earl Baker Ruth was a three-term U.S. Representative from North Carolina and subsequently served as governor of American Samoa.
Ernest Warriner Williamson was an American football player and coach. He play professional as a tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and New York Giants and in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the Los Angeles Dons. Williamson played college football at the University of North Carolina. He served as the head football coach at Sewanee:The University of the South in Sewanee,Tennessee from 1954 to 1956,compiling a record of 2–22–1.
David Grier Martin Jr. is an American retired lawyer,politician,and university administrator. Martin was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1984 and 1986,losing to Alex McMillan. Martin later served as Secretary and a Vice President for the University of North Carolina system and has served as the host of North Carolina Bookwatch, a public access television show.
Walter Royal Davis was a Texas oil tycoon and philanthropist originally from Elizabeth City,North Carolina. He was also an influential figure in state politics and higher education. Davis Library,the main library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since it opened in 1984,is named for him,he having been a trustee at the university for 16 years. He died at his home in Chapel Hill,North Carolina,at the age of 88. He also had a home in Midland,Texas.
Hocutt v. Wilson,N.C. Super. Ct. (1933) (unreported),was the first attempt to desegregate higher education in the United States. It was initiated by two African American lawyers from Durham,North Carolina,Conrad O. Pearson and Cecil McCoy,with the support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The case was ultimately dismissed for lack of standing,but it served as a test case for challenging the "separate but equal" doctrine in education and was a precursor to Brown v. Board of Education,347 U.S. 483 (1954).
Jonathan Howes was an American politician and urban planner. He served as the director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1970 until 1993. Howes began his political career as an elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council from 1975 to 1987. He was then elected Mayor of Chapel Hill for two consecutive terms from 1987 to 1991. In 1991,North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt appointed Howes as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources,a state cabinet position he held from 1992 to 1997.
William Johnston "Billy" Armfield IV was an American textile business executive and philanthropist.
The 2021–22 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Hubert Davis,in his first season as UNC's head coach after the retirement of longtime coach Roy Williams. The Tar Heels played their home games at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill,North Carolina,as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Betty Landon Ray McCain was an American politician and political strategist. She was the North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources during Governor Jim Hunt's administration and was the first woman to chair the North Carolina Democratic Party. She was also the first woman named to the state's Advisory Budget Committee. As Secretary of Cultural Resources,McCain opened the North Carolina Museum of History,rededicated USS North Carolina (BB-55),and secured funding for the excavation of the Queen Anne's Revenge. She received the North Carolina Award in 2009 and was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame in 2010.
