Inventory of the Emery Byrd Denny Papers, 1912-1973
Collection Number 4345
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Denny, Emery Byrd, 1892-1973.
- Title
- Emery Byrd Denny Papers, 1912-1973.
- Call Number
- 4345
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 8,250 items (10.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Emery Byrd Denny Papers, #4345, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Broughton, J. Melville (Joseph Melville), 1888-1949.
- Denny, Emery Byrd, 1892-1973.
- Judges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Lawyers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- North Carolina. Supreme Court--History.
- Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Biographical Note
Emery Byrd Denny was an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1942-1962, and chief justice, 1962-1966.
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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.