Needham B. Broughton, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetNeedham B. Broughton
American politician
Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1848
Date of Death: 26-May-1914
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Needham B. Broughton
- Needham Bryant Broughton (February 14, 1848 – May 26, 1914) was an American printer, temperance activist, and politician who served as a North Carolina state senator from 1901 to 1903.
- He co-owned a prosperous printing business, Edwards & Broughton, and was a member of several commercial organizations.
- An active member in the North Carolina Baptist community, he served as secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention for approximately 30 years.
- Broughton was born in 1848 near Auburn, North Carolina.
- Eight years later his family moved to Raleigh, and he enrolled in public school.
- After several years of work in printing offices which saw him employed in Washington D.C.
- and New York City, Broughton returned to Raleigh and married.
- In 1872 he and C.B.
- Edwards established the Edwards & Broughton Printing Company.
- It quickly became one of the largest printers in North Carolina, and for a time it did most of the printing and binding of state publications.
- Broughton was a devout Baptist who acted as a lay preacher, deacon, Sunday school superintendent, and secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention for about 30 years.
- Inspired by his religious convictions, he ardently campaigned for temperance and the prohibition of alcohol in North Carolina.
- He served one term in the North Carolina State Senate for the Democratic Party to prevent the seat from being filled by an anti-prohibition candidate.
- Broughton also supported public education, securing tax increases to fund Raleigh's schools and serving on the boards of trustees for several state institutions.
- He fell ill in 1913 and was forced to retire, dying the following year in a hospital in Philadelphia.
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- Broughton High School in Raleigh was named in his honor.
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