Sam Ervin
Sam Ervin
Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer," and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl. During his Senate career, Ervin was a legal defender of the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, as the South's constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights. Unexpectedly, he became a liberal hero for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 September 1896
CountryUnited States of America