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Corpening, Wayne A., 1914-2004

Biographical Note:: By 1979, Corpening had been an extension agent, Assistant County Farm Agent in Haywood County, and a Western North Carolina District Farm Agent. In 1979, he was mayor of Winston-Salem.

Birth Date:: 1914
Death Date:: 2004

Wayne A. Corpening portrait
1974

Wayne Corpening, Elaine Herndon, and Governor Luther H. Hodges for "March is Egg Month"
1958

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Knowledge Is Power, Oral History Interview Recording by D.W. Colvard with Wayne Corpening
July 20, 1979