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Collection Number: 04345

Collection Title: Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973.

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 10.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately About 8,250 items)
Abstract Emery B. (Emery Byrd) Denny was an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1942-1962, and chief justice, 1962-1966. The collection is chiefly correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, printed items, notebooks, a diary, speeches, and other material documenting the career of Denny as lawyer and judge. Files pertaining to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the 1940 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign of J. Melville Broughton are also included.
Creator Denny, Emery B. (Emery Byrd), 1892-1973.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Emery B. Denny Papers, #4345, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Sarah Denny Williamson, Jean Denny Ashley, Betty Denny Shook, and Emery Denny, Jr., April and December 1983.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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23 November 1892 Emery Byrd Denny born Pilot Mountain, N.C., to Gabriel Denny and Sarah Delphina Stone
1915-1916 Student, University of North Carolina
1917-1919 Law student, University of North Carolina
1917-1919 Served in Army Air Corps in Texas and Washington
1919 Became partner in law firm of Mangum and Denny, Gastonia, N.C.
1922 Married Bessie Brandt Brown of Salisbury, N.C.
1929-1937 Mayor of Gastonia, N.C.
1940 Manager of J. Melville Broughton North Carolina gubernatorial campaign
1940-1942 Chairman, North Carolina State Democratic Executive Committee
1941 Legislative counsel for Governor Broughton
1942-1962 Associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
1951 Elected to Board of Trustees, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C.
1962-1966 Chief justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
1968-1970 Chairman, North Carolina State Study Commission
25 April 1973 Died, Raleigh, N.C.
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The collection is chiefly correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, printed items, notebooks, a diary, speeches, and other material documenting the career of Denny as lawyer and judge. Files pertaining to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the 1940 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign of J. Melville Broughton are also included.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Folder 1a

Box 1-2

Subject Files, 1912-1949 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 1-2

Box 1

Box 2
Box 2

Subject Files, 1950-1959 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 2

Box 2-7

Subject Files, 1960-1969 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 2-7

Box 2

Box 3

Box 4

Box 5

Box 6

Box 7
Box 7-8

Subject Files, 1970- #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 7-8

Box 7

Box 8
Box 9

Law school notebooks, 1917-1919 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 9

Box 10

Broughton campaign material, 1940 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 10

Box 11

Conference of Chief Justices material, 1963-1965 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 11

North Carolina State Constitutional Study Commission material, 1968-1969 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 11

Box 12

Speeches of Emery B. Denny, circa 1929-1970 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 12

Diary of Emery B. Denny, 1918-1919 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." Box 12

Image Folder PF-4345/1-4

Photographs #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." PF-4345/1-4

PF-4345/1

PF-4345/2

PF-4345/3

PF-4345/4
Extra Oversize Image Folder X-OP-PF-4345/1

Group photograph, includes Emery B. Denny, of "Federal Commission, Visitors, and Guests of Gastonia, N.C., Chamber of Commerce," 1925 #04345, Series: "Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973." X-OP-PF-4345/1

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Photographs (PF-4345/1-4, X-OP-PF-4345/1).

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Processing Information

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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