Robert Broadnax Glenn

Robert Broadnax Glenn

Robert Broadnax Glenn (16 August 1860ndash 9 June 1925) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1905 to 1909.

Glenn was a resident of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and a lawyer with the law firm of Glenn, Manly & Henderson, a predecessor firm to the modern-day Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC. It was precisely one century until another Winston-Salem resident was elected to statewide office (when Richard Burr was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004). Glenn was known as the "Prohibition Governor" for his successful 1908 campaign to ban liquor statewide.Glenn was also interested in conservation, as evidenced by his remark at the National Governors Association meeting of 1908: "our forests are being denuded...the failure of the People throughout the States to protect the great forest industry of our country...is one of the chief sources if not the greatest source of all [natural resource waste] ...Our People, regardless of the future, have been living only for the present, thinking of themselves and not of their children and their children's children." [ [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.f3e4d086ac6dda968a278110501010a0/?vgnextoid=8903d5df1d552010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD National Governors Association ] at www.nga.org]

In 1906, a mob in Salisbury, North Carolina lynched three black men who were accused of murdering a white family. Governor Glenn ordered three companies of state militia to the scene, but only after hearing from the Judge, who waited, literally, until the eleventh hour to call for help. Before the companies left their railroad stations, Glenn received word that it was too late; the three were already dead. The next day, Glenn, at the sheriff's request, sent the military companies to Salisbury to guard the jail now holding one alleged lyncher. Glenn went to Salisbury himself two days later to testify in the trial of the soon to be convicted lynching "leader," George Hall. Eventually, the lynch mob leader was tried and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, the first such conviction for lynching in North Carolina history. Hall, however, was pardoned by Governor Kitchin before serving the full term.Public outcry over the lynching and concern about its negative effect on North Carolina's business prospects, prompted Glenn to send out an executive order to all county sheriffs and all state militia companies to inform him immediately of any rumor of a lynching in the future, and to shoot to kill if necessary to guard prisoners threatened by mob violence.

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Robert B. Glenn High School in Kernersville, North Carolina is named after the former governor.

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