Roy H. Rowe was an American politician. Rowe was a theatre manager for

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, based in

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and

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Upon returning to his hometown of

Burgaw, North Carolina Burgaw is a town in and the county seat of Pender County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,088 at the 2020 census. Burgaw is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The town most likely derives its ...

, by the 1940s, Rowe became the manager of the Pender Theater. Rowe served in the

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and the

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. Rowe sought the Democratic Party nomination for the 1952 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, which was won by

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. Roy Rowe was married to Nina Worsley Rowe.

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