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Biography of Sam J. Ervin, Jr.Name: Sam J. Ervin, Jr.Birth Date: September 27, 1896 Death Date: April 23, 1984 Place of Birth: Morganton, North Carolina, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: lawyer, judge, federal senator, politician Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Lawyer, judge, and U.S. senator, Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (1896-1984) became a popular figure during one of the most trying times for the United States, when he chaired the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities--the Watergate Committee.Sam Ervin was born September 27, 1896, in Morganton, North Carolina. His ancestors, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, fled from religious persecution to settle in the new land in 1732. Educated in public schools and blessed with an insatiable appetite for learning, Ervin earned his college degree from the University of North Carolina in 1917, enlisted in World War I, and was wounded in combat in France. At one point during the war Ervin resigned his commission as a lieutenant as that was the only way he could return to the front and combat. A much decorated hero for his actions, when he returned home he attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1922. From the mid-1920s until the …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…and a son. Further Reading The only biography of Sam Ervin is Paul R. Clancy, Just a Country Lawyer (1974). Sam Ervin wrote of his experiences with the Watergate Committee in The Whole Truth: The Watergate Conspiracy (1980). The role of Senator Ervin during the Watergate era is documented in Samual Dash, Chief Counsel: Inside the Ervin Committee (1976). Ervin's views on the Constitution and the Supreme Court are presented in Sam J. Ervin, Jr. and Ramsey Clark, Rule of the Supreme Court: Policymaker or Adjudicator? (1970). Thad Stem and Alan Butler have presented information about Ervin's anecdotes in Senator Sam Ervin's Best Stories (1973), and Senator Ervin published his own account of many anecdotes in Humor of a Country Lawyer (1983). He summed up his long career in a 1984 book--Preserving the Constitution: The Autobiography of Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.Dabney, Dick, A good man: the life of Sam J. Ervin, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. |