Wade Reavis
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Wade Reavis was an American politician.
Reavis was born in Hamptonville, North Carolina, on December 20, 1876 to parents Charles S. and Esther L. Reavis. He graduated from East Bend High School in East Bend, then enrolled at Yadkinville Normal School. Reavis completed a Bachelor of Arts at Wake Forest College in 1898, then obtained a Bachelor of Laws at Georgetown University Law Center. He practiced law and, between 1899 and 1900, served as superintendent of education in Yadkin County. Reavis was first elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1911, as a Republican. He was a Freemason, affiliated with the A. F. and A. M Hickory Lodge.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ North Carolina Manual. North Carolina Historical Commission. 1913. pp. 314–315.
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- 1876 births
- 20th-century American legislators
- Republican Party members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
- School board members in North Carolina
- Georgetown University Law Center alumni
- Wake Forest University alumni
- North Carolina lawyers
- People from Yadkin County, North Carolina
- 20th-century North Carolina politicians
- North Carolina politician stubs