Robert Broadnax Glenn

Robert Broadnax Glenn ( born August 11, 1854 Rockingham County, North Carolina, † May 16 1920 in Winnipeg, Canada ) was an American politician and the 51st Governor of the State of North Carolina.

Early years

Robert Glenn visited in his youth, the Davidson College and the University of Virginia. At the Judge Richmond Law School, he studied law. His political career began in 1880, when he was elected to the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives from North Carolina. In 1884 and 1892 he was one of the electors of President Grover Cleveland. In 1886 he was prosecutor in the Ninth Judicial District of North Carolina; In 1892 he resigned as attorney general in the service of the federal government. After a stay in the Senate of North Carolina in 1898, he applied in 1904 to the post of governor of that state.

Governor of North Carolina

He managed to win the elections. His term began on January 11, 1905 and ended four years later on 12 January 1909. During this time, most government bonds were repaid. Laws against lynchings were tightened and railway tariffs were reduced. In addition, both the education system and the health care have been improved. At that time, a compulsory education of at least four months per year was introduced in North Carolina. The governor also strove for a Prohibition law should ban the trade and sale of alcohol. A corresponding law came into force in 1908 in North Carolina. This topic has been controversial in those years in most states. The debate culminated in a 1919 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which Prohibition was anchored there. When in the 1920s the law is not feasible proved to be practical and only organized crime made ​​feed, it was abolished in 1933 at the federal level again. Then the law of 1908 was set in the 1930s, again suspended in North Carolina.

After the end of his tenure, Glenn worked as a lawyer. He died in May 1920. Robert Glenn was married to Nina Deadrick, with whom he had three children.