Complex sentence: At the time of his birth, his father was the County Registrar of Deeds, and he continued to rise in North Carolina Democratic Party politics, serving as one of the delegates to the National Democratic Convention in 1912.
Split into simpler sentences: At the time of his birth, his father was the County Registrar of Deeds. The father continued to rise in North Carolina Democratic Party politics, serving as one of the delegates to the National Democratic Convention in 1912.