William Bradley Umstead (13 May 1895-7 November 1954) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NC 6) from 4 March 1933 to 3 January 1939 (succeeding J. Bayard Clark and preceding Carl T. Durham), as a US Senator from 18 December 1946 to 30 December 1948 (succeeding Josiah Bailey and preceding J. Melville Broughton), and as Governor of North Carolina from 8 January 1953 to 7 November 1954 (succeeding W. Kerr Scott and preceding Luther H. Hodges).
Biography[]
William Bradley Umstead was born in Mangum Township, North Carolina in 1895, and he served as a US Army officer in France during World War I. Afterwards, he practiced law and served as a district attorney from 1927 to 1933, in the US House of Representatives from 1933 to 1939, as chairman of the state Democratic Party, in the US Senate from 1946 to 1948, and as Governor from 1953 until his death in 1954. He was among the most conservative Democrats elected to the US Congress at the start of his tenure.