Robert Digges Wimberly Connor

Robert Digges Wimberly Connor

Robert Digges Wimberly Connor (September 26, 1878 - February 25, 1950) was an American historian and the first Archivist of the United States, 1934-1941. He was born to Henry G. Connor and Kate Whitfield Connor on September 26, 1878, in Wilson, North Carolina. At the time that President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to head the National Archives, Connor was serving as a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he graduated himself in 1899.

External links

* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/bios/pn0000339_bio.html Connor in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography]
* [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Connor,R.D.W. R.D.W. Connor Papers]
* [http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/unc/ncday/browse_results_year.html?year=1950 North Carolina Collection]
* [http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847169,00.html Time Magazine article from 1934]
* [http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?sp=Markers&sv=F-39 North Carolina Historical Marker]


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