Name Carl Durham | Role U.S. representative | |
Died April 29, 1974, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States | ||
Carl Thomas Durham (August 28, 1892 – April 29, 1974) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born in Bingham Township, Orange County, at White Cross, North Carolina, Durham attended the public schools of Orange County, Mandale Private School, Saxapahaw, North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pharmacist at Chapel Hill 1912-1938. He served as a pharmacist's mate in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1918. He served as member of the city council of Chapel Hill, North Carolina from 1924 to 1932, and of the Orange County Board of Commissioners 1932-1938. He served as member of the school board of Chapel Hill, North Carolina from 1924 to 1938. Trustee of the University of North Carolina.
Durham was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1961). He served as chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Eighty-second and Eighty-fifth Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress. In 1964 retired and resided in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He died in Durham, North Carolina, April 29, 1974. He was interred in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.