 As an undergraduate, he was president of the Dialectic Society (1925) and the Monogram Club, and was president of the Class of 1925.In law school, he was student body president in 1926 and founded the school's College Republicans chapter in 1927.He was editor-in-chief of the "North Carolina Law Review" from 1927 to 1928 and a member of the Order of the Coif.