1971-1972 Skipper Bowles Erskine vtg rare North Carolina Democrat License Plate

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vintage original , metal Political early North Carolina License Plate.
not dated , but guaranteed aprox 1971-1972 as Bowles won the primary in 1972.
H. ( Hargrove ) Skipper Bowles -  Elect for Governor  ( based out of Greensboro NC )
with background of the North Carolina state Flag.
unused , never applied to a car , N. O. S. vintage early 1970s original , beautiful original condition.
nicest 50 year old tag you will find , as this tag has been stored its entire life.
rare and never offered for sale , here is info on Bowles and his son.
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Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles Jr. (November 16, 1919 – September 7, 1986) was an American Democratic politician and businessman, based in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Bowles was born in Monroe, North Carolina and served in the United States Military during World War II (1943–1945).
In the early 1960s, Bowles served as Governor Terry Sanford's chairman of the state Board of Conservation and Development - a post similar to what became known as the Secretary of Commerce, although it dealt with some environmental matters, as well. Afterwards, Bowles was elected to one term in the North Carolina House of Representatives and two terms in the North Carolina Senate.
In 1972 Bowles won the Democratic primary for Governor of North Carolina but lost the general election to James Holshouser. Thus, he became the first Democratic nominee to lose the North Carolina gubernatorial race in the twentieth century.
Bowles later became known for his service to and fundraising for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he graduated in 1941. UNC's Center for Alcohol Studies is named for him.
Bowles died in 1986 from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS).
His son, Erskine Bowles, followed his father both into the investment banking business and into politics.
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Erskine Boyce Bowles (born August 8, 1945) is an American businessman and political figure from North Carolina. He served from 2005 to 2010 as the president of the University of North Carolina system. In 1997–98 he served as White House Chief of Staff and he also ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate from North Carolina in 2002 and 2004.
In 2010, Bowles served as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Alan Simpson.   Bowles and Simpson founded an advocacy group, The Campaign to Fix the Debt.
Bowles was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is the son of Jessamine Woodward Boyce Bowles and the late Skipper Bowles, a Democratic politician who ran unsuccessfully for Governor of North Carolina in 1972. Siblings include Hargrove Bowles III, Mary Holland Bowles Blanton and the late Martha Thomas Bowles. Bowles graduated from Virginia Episcopal School before attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and graduated with a business degree. After briefly serving in the United States Coast Guard, Bowles then enrolled in Columbia Business School, where he earned an MBA.
Following graduation, Bowles worked for the financial firm Morgan Stanley in New York City, where he met his future wife, Crandall Close. The two married in 1971 and moved to North Carolina, where Bowles worked on his father's 1972 gubernatorial campaign. Crandall and Erskine have three children: Sam, Annie, and Bill. In 1975, Bowles helped launch the investment banking firm of Bowles Hollowell Conner, and remained in the corporate sector until the 1990s
In 1992, Bowles became more involved in politics as a fundraiser for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. President Clinton appointed Bowles to head the Small Business Administration in 1993. From October 1994 to December 1995, Bowles served as Clinton's White House Deputy Chief of Staff, in the first term of the Clinton Administration. After briefly returning to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he helped found the private equity firm, Carousel Capital, Bowles was appointed Clinton's Chief of Staff in December 1996. One of Bowles's major responsibilities was dealing with federal budget negotiations between the White House and Congress. Bowles returned to Charlotte, North Carolina and to the field of finance again in October 1998. He was also asked by North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt to head a task force on rural economic prosperity.