Dennis G. Brummitt

Dennis Garfield Brummitt (February 7, 1881-1935) was Attorney General of North Carolina and Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives.

He grew up on a farm in Granville County, North Carolina during the Great Depression.[1]

He graduated from Wake Forest College and received his law license in 1907. He was active in the county Democratic Party and served as mayor of Oxford, North Carolina.[1]

He served in the state house from 1915 to 1919 and was elected Attorney General in 1924.[2] He was Speaker of the House in 1919.[3] He married Kate Hays Fleming.[2]

After his death, he was succeeded as Attorney General of North Carolina by Aaron Ashley Flowers Seawell.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b https://www.sog.unc.edu/sites/default/files/archived-files/populargovernmen2n4.pdf pages 10, 11, and 17
  2. ^ a b State, North Carolina Secretary of (October 16, 1927). "North Carolina Manual". North Carolina Historical Commission – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "North Carolina State House of Representatives - 1919-1920".
  4. ^ "SEAWELL IS NAMED ATTORNEY GENERAL RALEIGH, N. C., Jan. 17". Suffolk News-Herald. Vol. 12, no. 256.
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