And before people got used to the idea they had a senator named joseph brotten, the voters didnt get to replace him. The governor got to replace him. It was an open seat. The governor of North Carolina decided to look to a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brottens senate seat. He decided to give it to the president of the university of North Carolina. And the president of the university of North Carolina at that time, 1949, was a really interesting guy. Background, he had been a history professor, but was a very politically skilled guy. When he became president of unc, he got lots of funding and made a lot of impacts. There was previously a quota of the number of jews that they would accept at the school. But when he came president , he drafted the jew quota. He was unexpectedly vaulted into the United States senate when he was asked to fill that open seat the seat unexpectedly died. When Frank Porter Graham was given that seat in 1949, in North Carolina, there were certai
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