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Former North Carolina governor turns 90

Jim Martin

CHARLOTTE — Saturday friends and loved ones celebrated a former North Carolina governor’s birthday.

Jim Martin tuned 90 this week.

Martin was governor in the 1980s.

He’s responsible for finishing I-40 from Tennessee to Wilmington. Martin was a congressman before that.

Former Governor Pat McCrory and Former Congressman Robin Hayes were at the party Saturday in east Charlotte.

Happy birthday to him.


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