Robert Digges Wimberly Connor
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Robert Digges Wimberly Connor (1878-1950) was an American historian and the first Archivist of the United States (1934-1941). He was born 26 Sept. 1878 in Wilson, North Carolina, the son of Henry G. Connor and Kate Whitfield Connor. At the time that President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him to head the National Archive, Connor was serving as a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he graduated himself in 1899.
