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Robert Lee Doughton, for whom Doughton Park is named, was born in Alleghany County, North Carolina, on November 7, 1863. An original and leading advocate of the establishment and development of the Blue Ridge Parkway, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1953 and chairman of its Committee on Ways and Means from 1933 to 1947 and again from 1949 to 1953.
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