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'''Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth''', known as '''Lauch Faircloth''' (pronounced LOCK) (born January 14, 1928), is a former one-term [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United States Senator]] for his native state of [[North Carolina]]. His term was sandwiched between [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Senators Terry Sanford and [[John Edwards]]. Faircloth served as Secretary of Commerce in the administration of Democratic [[Governor]] James Baxter Hunt, Jr. (born 1937). In 1984, Governor Hunt ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against [[conservative]] Republican [[Jesse Helms]] in the nation's most high- profile Senate race that year.
Before his Senate service, Faircloth was a prominent hog [[farmer]] in Sampson County in southern North Carolina.. He had entered the political realm as a [[Conservative Democrat]] because he opposed regulations targeting large hog farmers. Years earlier, he worked as a driver for Democratic Senator William Kerr Scott (1896-1958), who helped him to gain a hardship discharge from the [[Korean War]]. An early supporter of Terry Sanford's 1960 gubernatorial bidcampaign, Sanford named Faircloth to the state highway commission. Faircloth helped Robert Walter "Bob" Scott (1929-2009), a son of W. Kerr Scott, in Scott's successful bid for the governorship in 1968 over the Republican [[U.S. Representative]] James Carson Gardner (born 1933) of Rocky Mount. Scott named Faircloth chairman of the highway commission, and he subsequently servedas Secretary of Commerce in the Hunt administration.
Faircloth aspired to the governor's office himself, buthe lost the Democratic [[primary]] in 1984. He also considered running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Senator [[John Porter East]] in 1986, but he was discouraged from doing so by the entry of Sanford, who went on to win the race against appointed James Thomas "Jim" Broyhill (born 1927), a part of the Broyhill Furniture Company, who had served in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from 1963 to 1986. After Broyhill won the Republican nomination to succeed East, who committed suicide in June 1986.Then Republican Governor James Grubbs Martin (born 1935) appointed Broyhill to fill the remaining six months vacated by East. Broyhill then lost the general election to Terry Sanford.