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Governor, 1808-10; U.S. Senator; Congressman. "Hope," his home, stands 4 miles northwest.
On January 15, 1974, congressman and agricultural advocate Harold Cooley died from the effects of emphysema.As the longtime chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, Cooley, a native of Nash County, was a powerful spokesman for farmers from the New Deal to the Great Society.
On January 5, 1921, Lillian Exum Clement took her seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives, becoming the first woman in the South to hold legislative office.Clement was born in Black Mountain in 1886, and she worked in the Buncombe County sheriff’s office while studying law at night. In 1916, she passed the bar exam and the next year opened her own practice.