Alex M. Rivera Athletics Hall of Fame
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Henry McKinley Michaux, Jr., is inducted into the North Carolina Central University Athletic Hall of Fame as a pioneer in the sport of tennis.
He attended Durham elementary schools and completed his secondary education at Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia. He received his bachelor of science degree from North Carolina College at Durham in 1952. He has done graduate work in physiology and biochemistry at Rutgers University and a NCCU in business administration and economics, and received his Juris Doctor degree with honors from NCCU in 1965.
He has worked as a licensed real estate broker and as a licensed property and casualty insurance agent and broker, as a practicing attorney in Durham, as a chief assistant district attorney in Durham, and as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. He is executive vice-president and a member of the board of directors of five family-owned corporations in the state of North Carolina.
He has served five terms as a member of the House of Representatives of the North Carolina General Assembly, having been elected in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1984 and 1986. He had resigned at the end of the 1977 session to accept appointment to United States Attorney for the Middle District of north Carolina from President Jimmy Carter. He is currently a member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly, serving as chair of its committee on Constitutional Amendments, and as vice-chair of the Judiciary II committee and the committee on courts and Administration of Justice.
He has been national president of the North Carolina Central University Alumni Association, a director of the North Carolina Central University Foundation, Inc., and a trustee of North Carolina Central University. During his first period of service in the North Carolina legislature, he was instrumental in generating support and funds which enabled the North Carolina Central University School of Law to maintain its accreditation.
(bio from program at the time of induction)
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