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Hodges Elevates from Tenant Farm Roots to Commerce Secretary
Luther Hodges rising from a Pittsylvania County tenant farm to textile executive and North Carolina governor becomes President elect Kennedy's secretary of commerce. He used public relations to promote industrial development, traveled to attract new industry, and signaled planned reorganization in the Commerce Department.
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Bryan Haislip
Raleigh
N.C
Luther Hartwell Hodges
John F. Kennedy
Hodges
North Carolina
Europe
Commerce Post
Commerce Department
Marshall Field & Co
Fieldcrest Mills Inc
Germany
The
Economic Cooperation Administration
State Department
Free
William B. Umstead
Luter Hodges
U.S. Supreme Court
Little Rock
Ark
Eisenhower
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
Luther Hodges
Pittsylvania
Virginia
Leaksville
Luther
Marshall Field Mill
Martha Blakeney
Monroe
Bouyant Health
Kennedy
Harold Makepeace