Carrie Lougee Broughton

Broughton was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on September 16, 1879, to Caroline R. Lougee and Needham B. Broughton, a businessman and politician who served in the North Carolina State Senate. She was raised in the Southern Baptist tradition and attended Tabernacle Baptist Church. Broughton was a first cousin of North Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator J. Melville Broughton and Baptist minister and medical doctor Len G. Broughton. Broughton was educated in Raleigh public schools and attended the Peace Institute and Meredith College in Raleigh and the State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro. == Career ==

Broughton was a member of the Democratic Party. She was appointed Assistant State Librarian at the State Library of North Carolina in September 1902, succeeding Marshall De Lancey Haywood. The state librarian, Miles O. Sherrill, retired in 1917 and was succeeded by a series of men named as acting state librarians. The naming of a woman to the post was not initially considered by trustees Governor Thomas Walter Bickett, Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes, and Superintendent of Public Instruction J. Y. Joyner. Broughton was endorsed by the president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, the North Carolina Library Commission, the North Carolina Library Association, as well as the librarians of Meredith College, Wake Forest College, Trinity College, Davidson College, and the State Normal and Industrial College. As state librarian, Broughton organized the Secretary of State's collection into a research collection for government officials, writers, and scholars. She started a genealogical collection through the State Library's Department of Cultural Resources. Broughton served as state librarian until her retirement in 1956. == Death ==

On January 29, 1957, six months after her retirement, Broughton died from an illness. == References ==