MS005
Gore Cooper Family
Papers
This group
of William Bryant Cooper’s public papers is photocopies of a statement of his
campaign expenses in 1920 and of a letter and accompanying voucher for $6.00 for
Cooper’s last day of service as President of the North Carolina State Senate
Session of 1925. Cooper, a Democrat
from New Hanover County, served as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina from
1921-1925. As such, he
presided over the State Senate for the two regular and two special
sessions.
Cooper was
born at Cool Springs, South Carolina, on January 22, 1867, the son of Noah
Bryant and Lucinda Jennette Cooper, and attended the public schools of Mullins,
South Carolina. In 1893 he married
Frances Ada Gore. Banking was his
business and he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Wilmington, serving
as its president in 1900. Cooper
became a member of the Board of Trade in 1910. He also served as president of the
Masonic Temple Corporation.[1]
Lenox G. Cooper, Sr., William Bryant Cooper's son, donated these photocopies to the William Madison Randall
Library on November 7, 1973.
The Cooper
Papers have been designated Accession Number 5 of the Manuscripts Collection,
Special Collections Department, William Madison Randall Library, University of
North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, North Carolina
28403-3297.
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
[1] House, R.B., editor. North Carolina Manual 1923 (Raleigh, NC: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1923) 452.
[2] Who’s Who in the South (Washington, D.C.: The Mayflower Publishing Company, Inc., 1927) 777.
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1920 June 18, Final sworn statement of campaign
expenses of William Bryant Cooper (WBC) as a candidate in the primary election
held on June 5, 1920. “No receipts”
were listed and disbursements were for stenographers, stamps, stationery,
printing, advertising, traveling expenses and announcement, for a total of
$2,513.00
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1925 Jan 17, Letter, W.J. Jenkins, Pay Clerk, State
Senate Session 1925, Raleigh, NC, to WBC at Wilmington, NC. This letter accompanied an auditor’s
check for WBC’s last day’s service as President of the Senate Session of
1925.
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1925 Jan 17, Voucher #13 to WBC for $6.00. Signed by Baxter Durham, State Auditor,
and J.S. Robinson, Clerk.
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This paper
is a photocopy of the Annual Report and Statement of the Carolina Insurance
Company, Wilmington, NC, dated June 6, 1895. It is signed by D.L. Gore, president and
M.S. Willard, secretary. Clayton
Giles was Carolina Insurance Company’s vice-president and the directors were
D.D.L. Gore, Clayton Giles, S. Solomon, G.W, Williams, D.G. Worth, Donald
MacRae, and Luhr Vollers. (A
biographical sketch of Martin Stevenson Willard in Who’s Who in the
South, 1927, indicates he later became vice-president and a director of the
company.)[2] The
original of this report was donated by Lenox Gore Cooper, Sr., to the Southern
Historical Collection, Wilson Library, the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. This photocopy is
interfiled with the Gore-Cooper Family Papers.
Located in MS Box #4
COPYRIGHT: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.