Kellie Slappey Nothstine has a B.A. in political science & history from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She has a master’s degree in education from the University of Loyola-Chicago, worked for the Department of Education, and spent a decade working at a university as a school administrator and adjunct faculty member. Mrs. Nothstine holds her Juris Doctorate from University of Loyola Chicago School of Law.
Kellie Slappey Nothstine
North Carolina History Project
David Lowry Swain (1801 – 1868)
The twenty-sixth governor of North Carolina from 1832-1835, David Lowry Swain was born in Buncombe County and later went on to be the third President of the University of North Carolina.
Curtis Hooks Brogden (1816-1901)
Curtis Hooks Brogden served the state of North Carolina for half a century as a state representative, state senator, state comptroller, U.S. Congressman, lieutenant governor, and finally as the 42nd governor.
Alfred Moore Scales (1827 – 1889)
Alfred Moore Scales was born on November 26, 1827 in Rockingham County on his family’s plantation, Ingleside. Caldwell first studied at the Caldwell Institute in Greensboro before transferring to the University of North Carolina in 1845. Scales studied law under the tutelage of Judge William Battle and passed the bar exam in 1852.