
Joseph Melville Broughton Jr. (17 November 1888-6 March 1949) was the Democratic Governor of North Carolina from 9 January 1941 to 4 January 1945 (succeeding Clyde R. Hoey and preceding R. Gregg Cherry) and a US Senator from 31 December 1948 to 6 March 1949 (succeeding William B. Umstead and preceding Frank Porter Graham).
Biography[]
Joseph Melville Broughton was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1888, and he worked as a school principal, journalist, and lawyer before serving in the State Senate from 1927 to 1929, as Governor from 1941 to 1945, and in the US Senate from 1948 until his death from a heart attack in 1949.