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Excerpt from Presentation Address of Angus W. McLean, Former Governor of North Carolina: Upon the Occasion of the Ceremonies Attending the Presentation and Unveiling of the North Carolina Memorial on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, Wednesday, July 3rd, 1929 Here was the grim setting for a duel - two veteran brigades, one in blue, the other in grey, with both of whom Victory had become an established habit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Angus Wilton McLean was the eldest of the seven children of Archibald Alexander McLean, a planter and Confederate soldier, and Caroline (Purcell) McLean. He was born and spent most of his life in Robeson County, in that part of southeastern North Carolina where the Scottish Highland element, from which McLean sprang, was strong.
McLean grew up on a farm, attended McMillan Military Academy at Laurinburg, North Carolina, high school, and the University of North Carolina, where he studied law from 1890 to 1892.
Returning to Robeson County, McLean took up the practice of law in Lumberton, the county seat, from 1892 to 1904, served as county attorney, and later became the senior member of the firm of McLean, Varser & McLean. He engaged successfully in various business activities: organized and for many years was president of the Bank of Lumberton; built and served as president of the Virginia & Carolina Railway, the Robeson Development Company, and the McLean Trust Company; was a vice-president of three cotton mills; and owned and operated a number of farms. In 1892, the year in which he began the practice of law, he entered politics and was made chairman of the Robeson County Democratic Executive Committee. From that time on, he held positions of increasing importance and responsibility in the Democratic party, serving from 1916 to 1924, as a member of the Democratic National Committee. A strong supporter of the Wilsonian policies, from 1918 to 1922, he was a director of the War Finance Corporation (managing director, 1920-21) and in 1920-21, he was assistant secretary of the treasury and at the same time was a member of the treasury's Railway Loan Advisory Commission. Earlier, he had been a member of the Selective Service Advisory Commission, chairman of the Robeson County Liberty Loan Association, and organizer of the Robeson County chapter of the Red Cross. Interested in literature and especially in history, McLean was the author of an unpublished history of the Scottish Highlanders in North Carolina. Returning to Lumberton after his term of office, he engaged in business and the practice of law. In 1933, in order to act as attorney in connection with the receivership of about twenty defunct banks, he moved to Washington, where he died. His body was interred in Meadowbrook Cemetery, Lumberton, North Carolina.
McLean served as Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1920-1921. He also was known as one of the leading businessmen in Lumberton. In 1897, he joined a number of interested persons to establish the Bank of Lumberton, the first bank in town. Between 1895 and 1909, he helped to establish three textile mills in Lumberton, and in 1906 he played a significant role in building the Virginia and Carolina Railroad from Lumberton to St. Pauls, where it tapped the Atlantic Coast Line. This road provided the transportation needed for industrial and agricultural expansion in Robeson County. Although Governor McLean is best known for his fiscal reforms and reorganization of the administrative machinery of state and county government, he made significant contributions to the economic development of the state.
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A lifelong Presbyterian, McLean served as president of the board of trustees of Flora Macdonald College, a Presbyterian institution at Red Springs, North Carolina, as a member of the board of trustees of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginiaa. , and as a leader in the affairs of his denomination.
Although his only experience in public office during his early years in Lumberton was as a member of the town board of commissioners for two terms, McLean was recognized as a leader in the Democratic party. For sixteen years, he was a member of the state executive committee of his party and in 1912, and again in 1916, he served as chairman of the finance committee in North Carolina to raise funds for the Woodrow Wilson campaign. He assumed his first important political office when President Wilson appointed him to the War Finance Corporation in 1918, and his second when he was named assistant secretary of the Treasury in 1920.
During his term as governor of North Carolina (1925 - 29), McLean sought to follow sound business and administrative practices. Since 1921 the state had been spending far more than ever before, especially for roads, and McLean, while not putting an end to large-scale spending, sought to see that the state followed sound fiscal policies. The executive budget system, which he introduced, brought the various state departments and agencies under centralized executive fiscal control. Responsibility for collecting state funds was centered in the department of revenue (created in 1921), a sinking fund commission undertook to regulate the payment of the state debt, and various other administrative reforms were put through. McLean was determined to stamp out lynching in the state, and during his term of office not a single lynching occurred within its borders. During his administration an additional fifty million dollars was provided for improved roads, the construction of which gave an impetus to the rapid economic development of the state. Manufactured products, which in 1925 had been valued at $1, 050, 434, 117, by 1929 had climbed to a value of $1, 311, 924, 352. Expansion in other fields was equally rapid. When McLean went out of office in 1929 the credit structure of the state and its people was overextended, but the business practices he had introduced were to make it less difficult for the state to ride out the financial storm that was soon to break.
In addition to his fiscal reforms, McLean initiated a much-needed overhauling of the whole executive branch of state government. Among the steps taken were (1) the classification of all state employees and the establishment of a uniform salary and wage schedule for comparable work in all public offices, (2) the consolidation of all revenue-collecting forces into the Revenue Department, (3) the allocation of all responsibility for supervision and regulation of business, financial, and industrial organizations to the Corporation Commission, (4) the centralization of all legal activities of state agencies under one head, the attorney general, thus eliminating the employment of additional lawyers in the several departments, and (5) the consolidation of all agencies dealing with natural resources into a new State Department of Conservation and Development.
On April 14, 1904, McLean married Margaret French, of Lumberton, who bore him three children: Margaret, Angus Wilton, Jr. , and Hector.
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