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Alice Harper Willson Broughton was an American civic leader who served as the First Lady of North Carolina from 1941 to 1945 as the wife of Governor J. Melville Broughton. She and her husband were the first governor and first lady from Wake County to live in the North Carolina Executive Mansion. During World War II she was active in the war effort, promoting victory gardens across the state and establishing one at the governor's mansion, christening liberty ships including the SS Zebulon B. Vance and the SS Donald W. Bain, and donating rubber to the armed forces.
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- ↑ "Raleigh Academy". Ncpedia.org.
- ↑ Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Raleigh". North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. American Guide Series. p. 233+
- ↑ "NCSU Timelines". Historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu.
- ↑ "History & Tradition" (PDF). Grfx.cstv.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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