Horace R. Kornegay

Horace Robinson Kornegay (born March 12, 1924) is a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Kornegay was educated in the public schools of Greensboro, North Carolina.He attended Georgia School of Technology and graduated from Wake Forest College (North Carolina), B.S., 1947, LL.B., 1949.He was admitted to the bar and entered the practice of law in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1949.He served in the United States Army, One Hundredth Infantry, from December 14, 1942, to February 1, 1946, with service in the European Theater.He served as assistant district solicitor from 1951 to 1953.

Kornegay was elected district solicitor (prosecuting attorney), for the twelfth district of North Carolina in 1954 and again in 1958.He served as delegate to 1964 Democratic National Convention.

Kornegay was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1969).He was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress.He served as vice president and counsel, January 1969-June 1970, president, June 1970-February 1981, and chairman, February 1982-December 1986, of the Tobacco Institute, Inc.He resumed the practice of law in Greensboro, North Carolina, in January 1987.He is a resident of Greensboro, North Carolina.

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* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/C-0165 Oral History Interview with Horace Kornegay] at [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/ Oral Histories of the American South]