Horace Robinson Kornegay

Horace Robinson Kornegay (1924-2009) was a U.S. Congressman, Chairman of the Tobacco Institute, alumnus (Class of 1947) of Wake Forest College, and member of the Board of Visitors of the Wake Forest Law School.

Brooks Hays

Brooks Hays (1898-1981) was a U.S. Congressman from Arkansas; staff assistant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; Director of the Ecumenical Institute at Wake Forest University; and chair of the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council.

C.B. Deane

C.B. Deane (1898-1969) was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1923), a lawyer from Rockingham, North Carolina, and U.S. Congressman. Though he had waged unsuccessful campaigns in 1938 and 1940 to represent North Carolina’s Eighth Congressional District, Deane was victorious in his third bid to capture this seat in 1946. He then served five successive terms in the House of Representatives before he was defeated for reelection in 1956.

Charles Orville Whitley

Charles Orville Whitley (1927–2002) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1977 and 1986.

Donna Edwards

Donna Edwards (b. 1958), a native of Yanceyville, N.C., Edwards (’80) earned her WFU degree in English and Spanish. After working for Lockheed Corporation at the Goddard Flight Center with the Spacelab Program, she earned a law degree from the University of New Hampshire. As a lawyer, Edwards focused on activism, serving as the first executive Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. She was elected to Congress as a Democrat for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District in 2008, and she served until 2017.

Richard Burr

Richard Mauze Burr (b. 1955) was a Republican U.S. Representative (1995-2005) and Senator (2005-2023) from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He attended Wake Forest University from 1970-1974. His legislative interests were health policy, defense and biodefense, and intelligence, and some of his key accomplishments were the FDA Modernization Act of 1997, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, the Great American Outdoors Act, and serving as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. This collection primarily documents Burr’s years of Congressional service, with a small amount of personal files and campaign files.