Jim Broyhill
 Public service was more than a campaign promise for Jim Broyhill, this week's NC Notable. Stories abound in the Carolina Foothills about the Republican Congressman from what was then the 8th District. He was a political giant who knew the names and inquired about the families of the ordinary people who kept him in Congress from 1962 to 1986.
Broyhill became an elder statesman in North Carolina after his political career ended. He nurtured North Carolina's business climate, first as chairman of the NC Economic Development Board and later as Secretary of the state Commerce Department.
Broyhill served on the board of the NC Food Bank and was a member of the state's welfare to work committee. A champion of higher education, he served on the boards of Appalachian State University and the Babcok MBA School of Management at Wake Forest University. Broyhill used his stature to campaign for higher education bonds in 1993 and 2000.
Broyhill was inducted in 1993 in the NC Republican Hall of Fame. He retired to Winston-Salem, but remains active in Republican politics. His ability to be rather than to seem makes him an NC Notable.
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10.06.2005 Kay Yow
09.29.2005 Van Eure
09.22.2005 Mary Semans
09.15.2005 John Dornan
09.08.2005 Eva Clayton
09.01.2005 Lois Britt
08.25.2005 Fred Barber
08.18.2005 Julius Chambers
08.11.2005 Martha Guy
08.04.2005 Nido Qubein
07.28.2005 Jeanette Hyde
07.21.2005 Billy Graham
07.14.2005 Lee Smith
07.07.2005 Ralph Ketner
06.30.2005 Thomas Hearn
06.23.2005 John Allison
06.16.2005 Jim Martin
06.02.2005 Darleen Johns
05.26.2005 Hugh Morton
05.19.2005 Bernie Mann
05.12.2005 Orrin H. Pilkey
05.05.2005 William Friday
04.28.2005 Annie Louise Wilkerson
04.21.2005 Martin Lancaster
04.14.2005 Shirley Caesar
04.07.2005 Carl Fox
03.31.2005 Bob Jordan
03.24.2005 Ann T. Denlinger
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