ERVIN, SAMUEL JAMES, JR.
Samuel J. Ervin Jr. had a long career in law and politics including twenty years in the U.S. Senate. He is most famous, however, for presiding over the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, popularly known as the WATERGATE Committee.
Ervin was born September 27, 1896, in Mor-
ganton, North Carolina. He received an A.B.
from the University of North Carolina in 1917
and served as an infantryman in France during
WORLD WAR I. When he returned from France,
