Name Robert Wimberly Died February 25, 1950 | Role Historian Parents Henry G. Connor | |
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Books The life and speeches, Cornelius Harnett: An Essay in, Studies in the History of North, Ante‑bellum builders of North Car, History of North Carolina | ||
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor (September 26, 1878 – February 25, 1950) was an American historian and the first Archivist of the United States, 1934-1941. He was born to Henry G. Connor and Kate Whitfield Connor on September 26, 1878, in Wilson, North Carolina. At the time that President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to head the National Archives, Connor was serving as a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he graduated himself in 1899. Connor served as the third president of the Society of American Archivists between 1941-1943.
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