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Life Before Congress
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Congressman Mike McIntyre attended Lumberton Senior High School from 1971 to 1974. Before graduating, he received several honors or special recognitions as a student there. Some of these included:
winning the Morehead Scholarship his senior year because of his leadership, academic standing, character and physical vigor throughout his high school career;
serving as Student Body President when several new programs and projects were initiated, some of which continue to this very day at LSHS;
receiving the Language Arts trophy for having the highest academic average for three years in English;
receiving the Social Studies trophy for having the highest academic average for three years in social studies;
receiving the U.S. History Award his junior year;
being inducted into the National Honor Society his junior year in recognition of character, scholarship, leadership, and service;
receiving the Service Award for outstanding service to the school his senior year.
During his high school career, he also was a page in the North Carolina Senate and student body treasurer. He was parliamentarian of the Latin Club, a member of both the Spanish Club and the Pep Club, and he was manager for two years of the baseball team. He also placed in two statewide public speaking contests and won a districtwide short story writing competition. He was chosen to represent LSHS at Boys State his junior year, and he was selected to attend the Washington Workshops Congressional Seminar his junior year and the Advanced Seminar his senior year, which spurred his interest in politics.
Active in his church youth groups, youth choir, and Sunday School, he was co-editor of the youth newsletter (which he helped originate), a Youth Sunday speaker and organizer, an actor in youth dramas, and he was the youth representative on the church’s Witness Committee.
On the night he graduated, he was given the highest honor awarded at Lumberton High to a male student by being named the Best All-Around Senior Boy.
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Congressman McIntyre attended undergraduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1974 to 1978 where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. During his college years, he served in a number of organizations and received many awards. His activities and recognitions included:
being a Morehead Scholar, which was the result of his winning the Morehead Scholarship Award in 1974 because of his leadership, academic standing, character and physical vigor throughout his high school career;
being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, a national student academic honor society (1977);
receiving the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for best exemplifying in the senior class "unselfish service to his fellow man" throughout his collegiate career (1978);
being inducted into Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honor Society (1975);
serving the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Granville and Off-Campus Chapter) as President (1977-78), Program Chairman (1976-77) and Action Group Bible Study Leader (1975-76);
representing his fellow students as a member of Student Government by serving as the liaison with the UNC Office of Student Affairs (1976-77);
tutoring students at a local junior high school (1977);
being named to the Order of the Old Well for scholarship and leadership (1977);
volunteering as an Orientation Counselor (1975);
serving on the Presbyterian Campus Ministry Planning Committee (1974-75)
serving as a floor officer in his residence hall (1974-75); and
playing intramural softball on his residence hall’s team.
LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Congressman McIntyre also attended the University of North Carolina School of Law from 1978 to 1981, where he earned the degree of Juris Doctor. While in law school, he continued to remain active in Christian fellowship groups and intramural softball. He was also appointed by the chancellor of UNC to the Advisory Board of the Student Health Service.
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CAREER BEFORE CONGRESS
Mike McIntyre is an attorney-at-law and was a member of several professional organizations and bar associations during the fifteen years he practiced law before his election to Congress in 1996. He and his wife, Dee, have two sons, Joshua and Stephen.
In 1987, he was named on of the state’s Five Outstanding Young North Carolinians of the Year for his involvement in community, civic, professional and church activities. This award was sponsored by the North Carolina Jaycees.
In September of 1989, he received the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service to his community and to the state of North Carolina for his work with educators and school children.
In 1990 he was chosen the School Volunteer of the Year by the Rural Development Panel in Robeson County.
He was named as an “Outstanding Young Man of America” four times – 1981, 1984, 1985, and 1988. – “in recognition of outstanding professional achievement, superior leadership ability and exceptional service to the community.”
He is Founder and Chairman of the Citizenship Education Committee of the Robeson County Bar Association.
He was appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in 1986 to the Lawyers Advisory Council for the North Carolina Commission of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.
He was appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Law-Focused Education Advisory Committee for the Division of Social Studies, N.C. Department of Public Instruction, 1986-87.
He was State Chairman for the Bicentennial and Citizenship Education Committee of the N.C. Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division in 1986-87.
He was Chairman of Robeson County’s celebration of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution in 1986-87. While Chairman, the Robeson County Bicentennial Commission received a national award for its commemoration of the Constitution’s bicentennial, and McIntyre received a National Bicentennial Leadership Award for Individual Achievement in Washington, D.C.
From 1987 to 1989 he served on the North Carolina Commission on Children and Youth, having been appointed by the Lieutenant Governor. In 1989, he was appointed to a two-year term to the North Carolina Commission on the Family by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1991, he was appointed by the Mayor of the City of Lumberton to the city Commission for Youth and the Family, and he served as Vice-Chairman of the Commission.
He served for two years as President of Lumberton Economic Advancement for Downtown, Inc. (LEAD, Inc.), a non-profit corporation composed of city and county officials, civic leaders, professionals, realtors, merchants and businessmen interested in economic development and historic preservation for downtown Lumberton. During his tenure as president, Lumberton was named as a “Main Street City” by the Governor and downtown Lumberton was designated as a national historic district by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
He served on the State Advisory Board for North Carolinians Against Drug and Alcohol Abuse from 1984 to 1985.
He served on the Board of Directors of the Robeson County Group Home for mentally-challenged adults from 1984 to 1987.
He has served on both the Education Committee and the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Lumberton Area Chamber of Commerce, and he has served four terms as chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and its Executive Committee.
He has also served as Legislative Chairman of the PTA of Tanglewood School from 1991-93.
He was a member of the Robeson County Committee of 100.
He has served as a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Robeson County Museum, and he has been a member of both Historic Robeson, Inc. and of the Maxton Historical Society. He has also been a member of the N.C. Museum of History Associates.
In April 1991 he served on the Regional Selection Committee for the North Carolina Business Awards Program for Outstanding Social Studies Teachers which selected regional winners for the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Social Studies and Economics.
From 1987-1990, he and his wife, Dee, served on the Young Life Committee of Lumberton, and interdenominational ministry for teenagers. They also were members of the Young Life Council.
He has been a sustaining member of the Cape Fear Council of the Boy Scouts of America since 1990, and he has been actively involved in the “Investment in Character” and “Cub World” campaigns on behalf of Scouting.
He has served on the Board of Directors of the Lumberton Rotary Club.
He has served as a volunteer coach for T-Ball, baseball, football and basketball for the Lumberton Recreation Department, and in 1992, he coached the first All-American Drug-Free Team in Lumberton as recognized by the National Youth Sports Coaches Association. He was also a charter member of the Lumberton Youth Baseball Association and a charter member of the Robeson County Council of Physical Fitness and Health.
He has served as an Elder, Deacon, Sunday School teacher and Bible study leader at First Presbyterian Church in Lumberton, and as Clerk of the Session. He has also served as Chairman of the Weekday School/Day Care Committee of his church (1990-91) and as Chairman of the Celebration of Faith lay renewal held in his church in 1993.
He has served as Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the1995 Resurrection Breakfast sponsored by the Robeson County Men’s Fellowship and he served as coordinator of the Local Lawyers’ Fellowship for four years.
His autobiography appeared in November 1983, issue of Decision magazine, published internationally by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
He has been named to Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who inAmerican Law, Who’s Who of Practicing Attorneys, Who’s Who in the South, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who’s Who in American Christian Leadership, Who’s Who in the World, Men of Achievement, International Book of Honor, and International Leaders in Achievement.
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