district residence state_senate succeeded death_date death_place religion birth_place party term birth_date spouse image article_title state name occupation alma_mater
14th raleigh , north carolina north carolina dan blue 18 april 2009 raleigh , north carolina baptist wake forest , north carolina democratic jan. 2003 - april 18 , 2009 20 december 1931 susan vernonmalone.jpg vernon malone
 north carolina vernon malone school administrator shaw university
vernon malone

vernon malone -lrb- december 20 , 1931 -- april 18 , 2009 -rrb- was a democratic member of the north carolina general assembly representing the state 's fourteenth senate district from 2003 until his death in 2009 .
his district included constituents in wake county .
a retired teacher and educational administrator from raleigh , malone was a graduate of shaw university and held public offices in wake county for over three decades .
malone was born in wake forest in 1931 .
as school board chairman , he presided over the merger of raleigh city schools and wake county public schools in 1976 .
he served as a wake county commissioner from 1980 until his election to the senate in 2002 .
in the senate , malone continued to work in education .
he was co-chairman of the senate 's higher education committee and appropriations committee for higher education .
outside of public office , malone worked as a classroom teacher and as a school administrator before becoming superintendent of the governor morehead school for the blind in raleigh .
malone served as vice-chair of shaw university 's board of trustees , as well as a trustee for north carolina state university , the north carolina museum of art and wake education partnership .
he was also a director of capital bank , a community bank headquartered in raleigh .
he was an alumnus of alpha phi alpha fraternity , the first intercollegiate fraternity established by african-americans , which was founded in 1906 .
malone died at his home in raleigh on april 18 , 2009 .
