Jim Broyhill, a longtime North Carolina Republican congressman who served briefly in the U.S. Senate, has died. He was 95.
In this 1983 file photo, Rep. Jim Broyhill is shown.Jim Broyhill, a longtime North Carolina Republican congressman who served briefly in the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy before losing a bid to keep the job, died early Saturday at age 95, his family said.
In a video interview in honor of receiving a state award in 2015, Broyhill recalled the dearth of Republicans on the first state ballot he filled out in 1948. Broyhill had already won the Senate GOP primary a month earlier against David Funderburk, who had the support of Sen. Jesse Helms’ national organization that backed hardline Republicans. East wasn’t seeking reelection due to medical issues.against former Gov. Terry Sanford, a Democrat and outgoing Duke University president. Sanford narrowly defeated Broyhill in two elections that November -- one to serve out the rest of 1986 and another for the next six years.
“He wasn't able to spend as much time campaigning because he was intensely dependable on fulfilling his Senate duties,” Martin said. While he never served in a Republican-controlled chamber until his Senate appointment, he was able to flex his political muscles for Republican presidential administrations in the House and build support for their agendas with Democrats.
Broyhill “set an example that sadly we don’t have much of today and that is to cross the aisle and come up with solutions that are nonpartisan," said former Glaxo Wellcome CEO Bob Ingram, a North Carolina resident who knew Broyhill while working in Washington. “He wanted to get to the best answer to solve problems.”
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