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- ↑ "Renfrow trades politics for pulpit". NC Policy Watch. 12 October 2006. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Snee, Julie W., ed. (1991). North Carolina Manual 1991–1992 (PDF). Raleigh: North Carolina Secretary of State. p. 45.