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On April 23, 1985, former U.S. Senator and Watergate Committee chairman Sam J. Ervin, Jr., died of respiratory failure at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. He was 88.Born in Morganton, Ervin graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1917 before serving in France during World War I. After earning a law degree from Harvard University in 1922, he returned to his hometown to practice law and, years later, still described himself as an “old country lawyer.”
While anybody who lived through the 1970s, or has taken a course on American history, knows about Watergate and the president it brought down, not nearly as many realize North Carolina’s prominent role in the congressional hearings that gripped the nation as a result of the scandal. Among other links, the committee that investigated Nixon was led by North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, Jr., and included Rufus Edmisten, who would go on to be North Carolina’s Secretary of State and Attorney General, on its staff.