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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Alfred Moore Scales Papers, #4037, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Laura Hart, January 2021

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Association for the Promotion of Education in North Carolina.
• Civil service--United States--History.
• Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Elections--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• First Presbyterian Church (Greensboro, N.C.)
• Insurance companies--Law and legislation--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• North Carolina. Commission on Constitutional Amendments.
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Presbytery of Orange.
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of North Carolina.
• Presbyterian Church--North Carolina--History.
• Scales, Alfred Moore, 1870-1940.

Alfred Moore Scales, lawyer, Democratic state senator, real estate developer, and insurance executive of Greensboro, N.C.

Correspondence about North Carolina political candidates and elections; political and civil service appointments, both state and federal; proposed legislation affecting insurance companies, particularly, 1909-1913; and the business of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, various committees and agencies of the Orange Presbytery, and the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina. There is also material about the North Carolina Commission on Constitutional Amendments, 1913-1914, and about the Association for the Promotion of Education in North Carolina, 1920-1923.