John C.B. Ehringhaus

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John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus (5 February 188231 July 1949) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1933 to 1937.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "My name is pronounced as if spelled ear'en-house." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

Preceded by:
Oliver Max Gardner
Governor of North Carolina
1933–1937
Succeeded by:
Clyde R. Hoey