Robert Lee Humber

Background

Humber, Robert Lee was born on May 30, 1898 in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Lee and Lena Clyde (Davis) Humber.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Wake Forest, 1918, Bachelor of Laws, Rhodes scholar from North Carolina, Oxford (England) University, 1923. 1921, Doctor of Laws, 1949, Master of Arts, Harvard, 1926. B. Little American field service fellow, University of Paris, 1926-1928.

Doctor of Laws, University North Carolina, 1958. Doctor of Humanities, Duke, 1967.

Career

Admitted to North Carolina bar, 1920. Tutor department of government history and economics Harvard, 1919-1920. Lawyer and business executive, Paris, France, 1930-1940.

Founded at Davis Island, North Carolina, December 1940, Movement for World Federation whose principles and objectives were embodied in a resolution, approving World Federation, that has been passed by 16 State Legislatures of the United States Republican Southern Council on International Relations, United Nations Orgnl. Conference, San Francisco 1945. Co-founder, United World Federalists, 1947, vice president, 1947-1950, member of national executive council, 1947-1949, member executive council North Carolina branch, 1949-1970, president North Carolina branch, 1960-1966.

Member of advisory board American Freedom Association, 1953-1966, board directors, 1966-1970 vice president North Carolina Baptist State Convention, 1947. Member North Carolina Government's Study Committee in Vocational Rehabilitation, 1967-1969. State chairman United Nations Day, 1969.

Member Pitt County Good Neighbor Council, 1969-1970, North Carolina Council on Prevention of Crime and Delinquency, 1968-1969. Trustee, Meredity College, 1947-1950. Trustee Wake Forest College, 1951-1954, 59-60, president of the board, chairman of the executive committee, 1960, honorary life trustee, 1969-1970.

Chairman North Carolina Art Commission, 1951-1960. Chairman North Carolina Arts Council, 1964-1967. President North Carolina Museum Art Foundation, 1969-1970.

Member North Carolina Museum Building Commission, 1967-1970. President Tar River Basin Association, 1965-1970. Board directors American and Foreign Christian Union, Inc., 1941-1970, Pitt County chapter American Red Cross, 1957-1970.

Member of advisory board Raleigh Historic Sites Foundation, 1966-1968. Member cultural and literature centennial advising committee North Carolina State College, 1961-1962. Member Pitt. County Development Commission, 1959-1970, North Carolina Rhodes Scholarship Committee, 1946-1960, 63, Greenville Committee of 100, North Carolina Commision on Interstate Cooperation, 1959-1960.

Board directors Pitt County United Fund, 1965-1970, president, 1964-1965. Co-chairman Greenville Citizens Awareness Committee, 1970. Member cultural arts advisory council North Carolina Department Public Instruction, 1970.

Member Sir Walter Raleigh Commission, 1947-1970, chairman of the executive committee, 1952-1960. Member Executive Committee North Carolina Council on World Affairs, 1966. Member of advisory committee North Carolina State Library-Community Project, 1958-1960, Topographic Mapping of North Carolina, 1963.

Member commission on art, literature and music North Carolina Planning Board, 1944. Member Advisory Committee on Highway Safety, 1950. Past chairman Prudential Committee American Church in Paris.

Member Edenton History Commission, chairman, 1962-1970. Board directors Coastal Plains Planning and Development Commission, 1962-1965, 69-70 chairman, 1962-1964. Chairman of the board of trustees North Carolina Museum Art, 1961-1970.

Member North Carolina Conservatory Committee, 1962-1963, North Carolina State Capital Planning Commission, 1962-1965, Heritage Square Commission, 1962-1967. Trustee North Carolina Symphony. 1955-1970, member Executive Committee, 1963-1965, 67-70.

Member Tryon Palace Commission, 1956-1970. Trustee Pitt County Industrial Education Center, 1963-1964. Chairman of the Board Pitt Technology Institute, 1964-1970.

Politics

The concept of a free church in a free state rests not on political theory nor on human documents but on the word of God.

Views

To develop a close relationship with God could be done through many avenues, namely, reading the Bible, praying, praising, worshiping, and telling others of the Gospel.

Membership

Member North Carolina Senate, 1959-1964. as Second lieutenant, Field Artillery, United States Army, 1918. Member American, North Carolina, Pitt County bar associations, American Judicature Society, American Society International Law, American Academy Political and Social Science, Academy Political Science (life), National Forensic League (honorary), North Carolina Farm Bureau, International Platform Association, American Legion, Greenville Chamber of Commerce and Merchants. Association, North Carolina Music Society, East Carolina U. Alumni Association (life), Pitt County History Society (president 1964-1968), East Carolina Art Society (director 1956-1964), North Carolina Society for Preservation Antiquities (life), National Trust for Historic Preservation, Pitt County Executives.

Club (president 1961-1963), North Carolina Art Society (director 1945-1970, Executive Committee 1947-1961, chairman 1949-1961, president 1955-1961. Clubs: Greenville Music.

Connections

Married Lucie Berthier, October 16, 1929. Children: Marcel Berthier, John Leslie.

Father:

Robert Lee Humber

Mother:

Lena Clyde (Davis) Humber

Spouse:

Lucie Berthier

child:

Marcel Berthier Humber

child:

John Leslie Humber