Bern) Braxton Bragg (1817–1876), General in Confederate States Army; led Confederate Army of Tennessee in battles of Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Third Battle of Chattanooga against Union General Ulysses Grant (Warrenton) Jim Broyhill (born 1927), former Republican U.S. Representative and Senator from North Carolina; son of furniture magnate J. E. Broyhill (Lenoir) James Burnley (born 1948), U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan (Greensboro) Robert Byrd (1917–2010), U.S. Senator from West Virginia; longest-serving Senator in American history (North Wilkesboro) Lee Carter, elected delegate for 50th House district of Virginia and retired U.S. Marine veteran as IT specialist (Elizabeth City) Julius L. Chambers (1936–2013), civil rights attorney who successfully argued 1971 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education school busing case before U.S. Supreme Court (Mount Gilead) Levi Coffin (1798–1877), abolitionist and educator known as "President" of the Underground Railroad; credited with helping over 2,000 slaves escape to freedom before Civil War (Greensboro) Roy Cooper (born 1957), 75th governor of North Carolina (Nashville) Jerry K. Crump (1933–1977), U.S. Army soldier; Medal of Honor recipient (Charlotte) Josephus Daniels (1862–1948), U.S. Secretary of the Navy 1913–1921 under President Woodrow Wilson; journalist and founder of Raleigh News and Observer newspaper (Washington) William Dodd (1869–1940), U.S. ambassador to Nazi-Germany 1933–1938 under Franklin Roosevelt (Clayton) Elizabeth Dole (born 1936), U.S. Senator and Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan; wife to former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (Salisbury) Sam Ervin (1896–1985), four-term U.S. Senator and Chairman of Senate Watergate Investigation Committee; began legislative process which led to resignation of President Richard Nixon (Morganton) Virginia Foxx (born 1943), U.S. Congresswoman 2005–present; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Crossnore) Charles A. Gabriel (1928–2003), U.S. Air Force General, 11th chief of staff of U.S. Air Force (Lincolnton) Nick Galifianakis (born 1928), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina 1967–1973 (Durham) Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903), physician and inventor of Gatling gun (Hertford County) John Gibbon (1827–1896), Union Army general in American Civil War and colonel in the American Indian Wars (Charlotte) The Greensboro Four, male African-American students at North Carolina A&T State University who in 1960 started first civil rights sit-in; led to restaurants being desegregated throughout Southern U.S. John H. Hager (1936–2020), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia William D. Halyburton Jr. (1924–1945), United States Navy hospital corpsman; posthumously awarded Medal of Honor (Wilmington) Jesse Helms (1921–2008), retired five-term Senator from North Carolina and national spokesman for