Overman's Successor

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Senator Lee Slater Overman of North Carolina (see p. 36). Almost from the graveside at Salisbury, Governor Gardner announced the appointment of Cameron ("Cam") Morrison, 61, of Charlotte to be the successor. When he was North Carolina's Governor (1921-24) red-faced, plumpish, tobacco-chewing (and spitting) Mr. Morrison received much credit, took more, for inaugurating the $150,000,000 program which gave his state the best hard-surfaced road system in the south. In the executive mansion at Raleigh his ten-year-old daughter by his first wife served as official hostess. Later he wooed & won Sarah Ecker Watts, widow of George Watts, wealthy Durham Tobaccoman.

A regular Dry Democrat who supported the Brown Derby in 1928, Senator- designate Morrison was at once confronted with a major and perhaps controlling decision in the case of his fellow townsman. Frank R. McNinch, appointed as a Hoovercrat to the Federal Power Commission (see p. 10).

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