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unusual facts about Floyd McKissick, Jr.



Floyd McKissick

He endorsed Richard Nixon for president that year, and the federal government, under President Nixon, supported Soul City.

One of his early protests was in his hometown, Asheville, NC, because the city refused to permit actor Paul Robeson to speak in the city auditorium in the 1930s.

Floyd McKissick, Jr.

In January 2003, McKissick was disciplined by the NC State Bar for professional misconduct involving a conflict of interest, receiving a formal reprimand from the bar's grievance committee.

oid=1207932 He was appointed to the Senate by Governor Mike Easley on April 18, 2007 to replace the late Sen. Jeanne Hopkins Lucas and was later elected and re-elected in his own right.


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