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James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford served as the 65th Governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, was a two-time U.S. presidential candidate in the 1970s, and served as a U.S. senator from 1986 to 1993.
At the onset of the 1960s, Terry Sanford was elected the 65th governor of North Carolina. A lifelong Democrat, Sanford championed improving the state’s educational system at all levels, embodied the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, strove to fight poverty, and desired to expand the Research Triangle Park.
Terry Sanford has been gone almost 20 years now, dying at the age of 80 in 1998. He would have turned 100 last Sunday. And yet he’s with us still.
Apr 19, 1998 · Terry Sanford, who lowered racial barriers as Governor of North Carolina in the 1960's, setting the style for a new kind of Southern politician, and later became a United States Senator and...
North Carolina’s Terry Sanford, then 43 years old, was one of the first major Southern politicians to endorse John F. Kennedy for president. The two Democrats — energetic World War II veterans...
Terry Sanford, North Carolina’s most progressive governor, was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina, on August 20, 1917. As a young man, Sanford served as a special agent for the FBI and fought as a paratrooper in the Second World War.
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In the 1960 general election, James Terry Sanford was elected as the next Governor of North Carolina. He served one term from January 5, 1961 to January 8, 1965. Gov. Sanford nearly doubled North Carolina's expenditures on public schools.
