Emery B. Denny Papers, 1912-1973.

Summary

Creator:
Denny, Emery B. (Emery Byrd), 1892-1973.
Abstract:

Emery B. (Emery Byrd) Denny was an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1942-1962, and chief justice, 1962-1966. The collection is chiefly correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, printed items, notebooks, a diary, speeches, and other material documenting the career of Denny as lawyer and judge. Files pertaining to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the 1940 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign of J. Melville Broughton are also included.

Extent:
8,250 items (10.5 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
Library Catalog Link:
View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
23 November 1892
Emery Byrd Denny born Pilot Mountain, N.C., to Gabriel Denny and Sarah Delphina Stone
1915-1916
Student, University of North Carolina
1917-1919
Law student, University of North Carolina
1917-1919
Served in Army Air Corps in Texas and Washington
1919
Became partner in law firm of Mangum and Denny, Gastonia, N.C.
1922
Married Bessie Brandt Brown of Salisbury, N.C.
1929-1937
Mayor of Gastonia, N.C.
1940
Manager of J. Melville Broughton North Carolina gubernatorial campaign
1940-1942
Chairman, North Carolina State Democratic Executive Committee
1941
Legislative counsel for Governor Broughton
1942-1962
Associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
1951
Elected to Board of Trustees, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C.
1962-1966
Chief justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
1968-1970
Chairman, North Carolina State Study Commission
25 April 1973
Died, Raleigh, N.C.
Scope and content:

The collection is chiefly correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, printed items, notebooks, a diary, speeches, and other material documenting the career of Denny as lawyer and judge. Files pertaining to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the 1940 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign of J. Melville Broughton are also included.

Acquisition information:

Received from Sarah Denny Williamson, Jean Denny Ashley, Betty Denny Shook, and Emery Denny, Jr., April and December 1983.

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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.

Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

No usage restrictions.

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 Emery B. Denny Papers, #4345, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu