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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 Willis P. Whichard Papers #4426, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Willis P. Whichard of Durham, N.C., in October 1985, September 1986, and December 1998 (Acc. 98270), and October 2004 (Acc. 99917), and via Donald Matthews, in January 1990.

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.

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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• Judges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Legislators--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-
• North Carolina. Court of Appeals.
• North Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
• North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate.
• North Carolina. General Statutes Commission.
• North Carolina. Supreme Court.
• Southern Growth Policies Board.
• Whichard, Willis P.

Willis Padgett Whichard (1940- ) was a lawyer, judge, legislator, and educator. He served as a member of the North Carolina General Statutes Commission, 1969-1973; the Southern Growth Policies Board, 1971-1980; the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1970-1974; and the North Carolina Senate, 1975-198. From 1980 to 1986, he was judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and, from 1986 through 1998, he was an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. On 1 July 1999, Whichard became dean of the School of Law at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C.

(Source: North Carolina Manual, 1983, p. 787; Clipping Collection, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library.)

This material has been roughly arranged into the following categories: legislative correspondence files, 1971-1979, relating chiefly to Willis P. Whichard's career as a North Carolina legislator; legislative subject files, 1969-1980, relating to Whichard's legislative career; legislative committee files, 1972-1973, 1975, and 1979, relating to Whichard's service on the Legislative Research Commission, the Juvenile Code Revision Commission, and the Governor's Advisory Committee on Youth Development, including legislative reports, printed materials, drafts of bills, notes, and a few items of correspondence; legislative resource materials, 1977-1980, relating to Whichard's legislative career, including printed material, newspaper clippings, drafts of bills, speeches, notes, a few letters, and two files on Terry Sanford's presidential campaign in 1976 and James B. Hunt's gubernatorial campaign in 1980; miscellaneous and related legislative files, 1971-1980, relating to Whichard's public career, including miscellaneous correspondence, printed material, and miscellaneous subject files; North Carolina General Statutes Commission files, 1969-1973, documenting Whichard's service on the General Statutes Commission, including commission reports, legislative bills, commission minutes, correspondence, and other materials; North Carolina Land Policy and Land Use materials, 1974-1976, documenting Whichard's service on the North Carolina Land Policy Council and his interests in land use and land management, consisting chiefly of subject files; Southern Growth Policies Board materials, 1974-1979, relating to Whichard's service on the Southern Growth and Policies Board, including correspondence, subject notes, printed material, Southern Growth and Policies Board reports, and other material; personal files, 1976-1978, relating chiefly to Whichard's legislative career and interests in North Carolina politics, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, subject notes, and other material. Other materials in the collection are items relating to Whichard's career as a judged, 1979-1986, including correspondence, printed material, newspaper clippings, and other material, on subjects such as adoption, parole, the Prison and Jail Project of North Carolina, and the North Carolina State Bar Association. There are also items relating to the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in North Carolina, 1972-1979. The collection also includes additions of other subject files and other materials, 1965-1998, that have not been integrated into the original deposit.