L. H. Fountain

A Representative from North Carolina. Born in Leggett, Edgecombe County, N. C. , April 23, 1913. Attended the Edgecombe public schools, Edgecombe County, N. C. A. B. , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. , 1934. J. D. , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. , 1936. Lawyer, private practice. United States Army, 1942-1946. United States Army Reserve. Staff, North Carolina state senate, 1936-1941. Member of the North Carolina state senate, 1947-1952. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1983). Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982. Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on Federalism, 1981-1982. Died on October 10, 2002, in Raleigh, N. C. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Tarboro, N. C.