| Scope and content |
Collection contains legislative files; campaign files, including materials regarding the 1980 election; county correspondence files; East Carolina University Board of Trustees files; personal files as North Carolina Attorney General and director of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation; memorandums; legislative council material; clippings; speeches and statements; Carroll H. Leggett correspondence; 1965 General Assembly scrapbook; daily schedules; and Lees-McRae College files. Also includes papers regarding Senator Jesse Helms, the "Hard Right" in politics, and the Panama Canal Issue. Personal files include correspondence, photographs, movie film and sound track, clippings, reports, and miscellaneous. Campaign and United States Senate files include committee material, legislation, constituent correspondence, case files, speeches, press releases, clippings, campaign records, oral tapes, and photograph negatives of Morgan and associates in and around the United States Senate. |
| Access restriction | Clippings, speeches, press releases and published newsletters are open; access to all other materials is restricted pending permission from the Special Collections Department director and written consent of the donor. |
| Cite as |
Robert Morgan Papers (#268), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of the Honorable Robert Morgan. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Carroll H. Leggett. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Dorothy Pastis. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Martha G. Elmore. |
| Biographical note | Robert Morgan (b. 1925), a native of Lillington, N.C. , and member of the Democratic Party, served as North Carolina State Senator (1965-1967), North Carolina Attorney General (1968-1974), and United States Senator (1974-1980). He was also a member of the boards of trustees of East Carolina University (1958-1973) and of Lees-McRae College (1974-1977). |
