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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Colgate W. Darden, Jr. |
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Norfolk, Virginia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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February 11, 1897
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| Died | June 09, 1981
(84 years)
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Democratic Congressman from Virginia (1933-37, 1939-41), Governor of Virginia (1942-46), Chancellor of the College of William and Mary (1946-47) and the third President of the University of Virginia (1947-59). The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Virginia was named for him.
Darden was born on a farm near Franklin, Virginia and served in the French Army and the United States Marine Corps Air Service during World War I. He later attended the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, before going on to Columbia Law School (grad. 1923) and then Oxford University. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1930 to 1933 and a U.S. delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1955. He died in 1981 at his home in Norfolk, Virginia.
As governor, he reorganized Virginia's civil defense, reformed the penal system, and created a pension plan for state employees and teachers.
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