May 28, 1960:
Terry Sanford, considered a racial moderate, is the leading vote-getter in the North Carolina Democratic primary for governor, but he fails to win a majority of the vote. Sanford, a former state senator, will win the June 25 runoff against a segregationist candidate and go on to win the governorship in November.
He will later twice try for the Democratic presidential nomination, and in 1986 he will be elected to the U.S. Senate.
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