Background
Shuford, Forrest Herman was born on June 3, 1897 in Cleveland Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of J. M. and Ella (Copeland) Shuford.
Shuford, Forrest Herman was born on June 3, 1897 in Cleveland Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of J. M. and Ella (Copeland) Shuford.
Student Berea College, 1918-1920, North Carolina State College, 1924, Duke University, 1925.
Employed textile mills, Rhode Island and North Carolina, 1921-1924. Principal high school, Ellenboro and Spindale, North Carolina, 1924-1926. Boys commissioner City of High Point, North Carolina, 1926-1933.
Chief inspector North Carolina State Department Labor, Raleigh, 1933-1938, commissioner labor, since 1938.
North.R.A. compliance officer for North Carolina, 1934-1935 (on leave from Department of Labor). Appointed by President Roosevelt as advisory to delegate International Labor Conference, Philadelphia, 1944, and by President Truman to International Labor Organization Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1947.
President North Carolina Conference for Social Service. Chairman North Carolina State Board Boiler Rules, North Carolina State Apprenticeship Council.
Member committee laws and regulations, chairman sub-committee existing laws and regulations President Conference Industrial Safety.
Chairman disaster committee American Red Cross (Wake Company chapter).
Member committee laws and regulations, chairman sub-committee existing laws and regulations President Conference Industrial Safety. Chairman disaster committee American Red Cross (Wake Company chapter). Member International Association Governmental Labor Officials (president
Club: Kiwanis.
Married May Renfrow, June 3, 1922. Children: Forrest Herman, Harry Benjamin.