Vernon Malone
Politician
1931 – 2009
Who was Vernon Malone?
Vernon Malone was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fourteenth Senate district from 2003 until his death in 2009. His district included constituents in Wake County. A retired teacher and educational administrator from Raleigh, Malone was a graduate of Shaw University and held public offices in Wake County for over three decades.
Malone was born in Wake Forest in 1931.
As school board chairman, he presided over the merger of Raleigh city schools and Wake County public schools in 1976. He served as a Wake County commissioner from 1980 until his election to the Senate in 2002.
In the Senate, Malone continued to work in education. He was co-chairman of the Senate's higher education committee and appropriations committee for higher education.
Outside of public office, Malone worked as a classroom teacher and as a school administrator before becoming superintendent of the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.
Malone served as vice-chair of Shaw University's board of trustees, as well as a trustee for North Carolina State University, the North Carolina Museum of Art and Wake Education Partnership. He was also a director of Capital Bank, a community bank headquartered in Raleigh.
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- Born
- Dec 20, 1931
Wake Forest - Spouses
- Religion
- Baptists
- Education
- Shaw University
- Lived in
- Raleigh
- Died
- Apr 18, 2009
Raleigh
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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