THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, November 2, 1995 TAG: 9511020159
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Elections '95
SOURCE: BY SUSIE STOUGHTON, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Long : 244 lines
In Southampton County, 19 candidates are on the ballot for four constitutional offices and seven seats on the board of supervisors.
The six contested races have potential for election night drama.
Two constitutional offices are up for grabs. Four candidates, including the incumbent, are vying for the treasurer's job. And two candidates want the commissioner of revenue's post, both claiming they are running for re-election.
And in the supervisors' races, possible upsets to two veterans - the Boykins and Capron district supervisors - could result in a significant change in the board's make-up, giving four of the seven seats to political newcomers.
But an incumbent supervisor's last-minute write-in campaign poses the possibility of an unusual scenario as well as promising to keep election officials working late counting ballots.
If re-elected, Franklin district supervisor Thomas E. Daughtrey, who is not on the ballot, would represent a portion of Southampton County but would no longer live in the county. Daughtrey, whose home in the Hunterdale section of Southampton County will be annexed by the city of Franklin January 1, has announced that he wants to keep his seat.
Daughtrey, who has been a supervisor eight years, originally said he would not seek re-election since he would be a Franklin resident when the supervisors are sworn in. Recently, however, he has mounted a write-in effort to defeat the two candidates on the ballot.
``I don't have any problem with living in the city and representing the citizens in the county,'' Daughtrey said this week.
State election officials have told him he would be able to serve, if elected, Daughtrey said.
Meanwhile, David P. Watkins, a 12-year School Board member, and Walter Luther Young Jr., who has farmed in Southampton County all his life, have been campaigning for the position since June. Watkins, an independent, and Young, a Republican, are seeking to represent their interests on the board.
The Berlin-Ivor supervisor's seat will almost assuredly be filled by a newcomer, barring any unexpected write-in upset. Political veteran A. Meredith Felts, who has been board chairman for 20 years, is retiring.
Hoping to claim that seat are R.M. ``Bob'' Felts Jr. and Dennis A. Maddrey - both independents.
Both Maddrey and Bob Felts live in the Ivor area.
Maddrey, a Planning Commission member, hopes to see industrial growth to help relieve the county's tax burden. Felts is an advocate of conservative fiscal spending, quality schools and planning for solid waste disposal and housing needs.
Two likely candidates for the chairman's post - Capron supervisor Reggie W. Gilliam, who has been on the board 16 years, and Boykins district supervisor C. Harrell Turner, a 12-year veteran, are fighting for their political lives.
Gilliam, vice chairman for eight years, faces rare competition. Edwin E. ``Ed'' Seymore, who moved to the county 12 years ago from Virginia Beach, believes voters should have a choice.
Turner's opponent, Carl J. Faison, tried to run against him in 1983 but was disqualified after the filing deadline when the county Board of Elections discovered he did not live in the Boykins district. Since then, the county has redrawn district lines and he is now in the Boykins district.
The treasurer's race has the most candidates with incumbent David K. Britt, a Democrat, facing challengers Gary D. Baugham, Jeannette S. Everett and Earva Jones-Sumblin, all independents.
The commissioner of revenue's race is hotly contested. The incumbent is John Robert Harrup, a Democrat who won a special election for the post last year. He replaced an interim commissioner appointed after his challenger, Edward L. ``Ed'' Marks IV, resigned from the office he had held less than two years.
Marks was convicted of a misdemeanor of unlawfully copying an employee's telephone conversations and could not seek the post again until this fall. MEMO: SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY ELECTIONS
TREASURER
David K. Britt (D)
Born: June 8, 1960
Education: Graduate, Southampton High School; bachelor's degree,
Atlantic Christian College
Occupation: Southampton County treasurer
Phone: W) 653-3025, H) 654-0008
Experience: Treasurer for the past four years; former deputy
treasurer and former office coordinator; certified governmental
treasurer; member, Boykins Lions and Newsoms Ruritan clubs and Boykins
Community Youth Center board; member and youth counselor, Courtland
Baptist Church; Little League baseball and football coach
Gary D. Baugham (I)
Born: July 5, 1962
Education: Graduate, Southampton High School
Occupation: Office coordinator, Parker Oil Co.
Phone: W) 654-6464, H) 654-6306
Experience: Member, Boykins Lions Club
Jeannette S. Everett (I)
Born: Sept. 22, 1957
Education: Graduate, Southampton Academy; attended Chowan College
Occupation: Deputy, commissioner of revenue's office
Phone: W) 653-3030, H) 658-4708
Experience: Commissioner of Revenue's office 6 1/2 years; former bank
head teller; member, Joyner Methodist Church; president, Southampton
Academy PTO; chairman, Farm Bureau women's committee
Earva Jones-Sumblin (I)
Born: Oct. 14, 1951
Education: Attended former Riverview High School; bachelor's degree,
St. Paul's College
Occupation: Senior vice president, Primerica Financial Services;
founder, ``GRUP'' Opportunity Travel Service Inc.
Phone: W) 654-6318, H) 562-2655
Experience: Budget control counseling services for 20 years;
graduate, H&R Block tax school; former bank teller and cashier; former
credit union manager; head of youth ministry, Ebenezer Baptist Church
COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE
John Robert Harrup (D)
Born: Sept. 20, 1937
Education: Graduate, former Drewryville High School
Occupation: Commissioner of revenue
Phone: W) 653-3030, H) 653-2668
Experience: Commissioner of revenue for past year; enrolled, H&R
Block basic tax school; chairman, Courtland Planning Commission; former
chief election officer; former surveyor; former Ruritan zone governor;
member and former chairman, Courtland Baptist Church board of deacons
Edward L. ``Ed'' Marks IV (I)
Born: April 20, 1960
Education: Graduate, Southampton Academy; bachelor's degree, Elon
College
Occupation: Vice president, Marks Construction Co. Inc.
Phone: W) 569-9641, H) 562-4457
Experience: Former commissioner of revenue two years; former CPA
staff accountant; past treasurer, Franklin Jaycees; senior warden, St.
Luke's Episcopal Church
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
BERLIN-IVOR DISTRICT
R.M. ``Bob'' Felts Jr., (I)
Born: May 6, 1947
Education: Graduate, Southampton High School; bachelor's degree,
Wingate College; leadership training courses
Occupation: President, R.M. Felts Packing
Phone: W) 859-6131, H) 859-6720
Experience: Secretary, Ivor Ruritan Club; past Ruritan district
governor; member and Sunday school teacher, Millfield Baptist Church
Dennis A. Maddrey (I)
Born: May 29, 1942
Education: Graduate, Southampton High School; bachelor's degree, the
College of William and Mary
Occupation: Rural mail carrier
Phone: H) 859-6218
Experience: Member, Southampton County Planning Commission; member
and past president, Virginia Rural Letter Carriers' Association; former
teacher and coach; former farm and warehouse manager; member,
Franklin-Southampton County Fair board; former member, Southampton
Memorial Hospital board
BOYKINS DISTRICT
C. Harrell Turner (I)
Born: Aug. 15, 1949
Education: Graduate, Franklin High School; bachelor's degree,
Virginia Tech
Occupation: Manager, North Carolina area, Forest Resources Group,
Union Camp Corp.
Phone: W) 569-4586 or H) 654-6254
Experience: Board of supervisors for the past 12 years; member,
Hampton Roads Planning District Commission; chairman, State
Reforestation Board; former member, Boykins Town Council,
Franklin-Southampton County Fair board and Branchville Community Center
board; former president, Boykins Lions and Ruritan clubs; Sunday school
teacher and chairman of board of deacons, Boykins Baptist Church
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
BOYKINS DISTRICT Carl J. Faison (D)
Born: Nov. 26, 1946
Education: Graduate, former Riverview High School; bachelor's and
master's degrees, Hampton Institute (now Hampton University)
Occupation: Adult probation and parole officer
Phone: H) 654-9697
Experience: Deacon, Sunday school teacher and van driver, Shiloh
Baptist Church; volunteer, Southampton County Schools
CAPRON DISTRICT
Reggie W. Gilliam (D)
Born: Dec. 24, 1926
Education: Graduate, former Southampton County Training School and
New York Technical Institute
Occupation: Retired radio/TV repairman; business owner
Phone: 653-9140
Experience: Board of supervisors for the past 16 years and vice
chairman, eight years; member, Tidewater Group Home Committee; chairman,
Southampton County Highway Safety Commission; member, Southampton County
Leadership Council; member, NAACP; trustee, Pleasant Plains Baptist
Church; member and former board member, Franklin-Southampton Area
Chamber of Commerce
Edwin E. ``Ed'' Seymore (I)
Born: May 19, 1939
Education: Graduate, Princess Anne High School
Occupation: farmer, cotton scout
Phone: H) 653-9403
Experience: Member, Southampton County Farmer's Market planning
committee; member, pastor-parish committee and administrative council,
Vincent Grove Methodist Church
FRANKLIN DISTRICT
David P. Watkins (I)
Born: Jan. 26, 1950
Education: Graduate, Bayside High School
Occupation: Electrical instrument planner, Union Camp Corp.
Phone: 569-4718
Experience: Member, Southampton County School Board past 12 years;
member, School Board budget and building committees; former Navy
electronics technician; chief warrant officer, Naval Air Reserve;
member, Masonic Lodge No. 151
Walter L. Young Jr. (R)
Born: June 7, 1940
Education: Graduate, Franklin High School
Occupation: Farmer
Phone: 562-5292
Experience: Member, Franklin-Southampton County Fair board; former
member, Virginia Pork Industry board; member and past president,
Virginia Pork Producers; deacon and trustee, Sycamore Baptist Church
ILLUSTRATION: David Britt has been Southampton County treasurer for four
years.
Gary D. Baugham is vying for the treasurer's seat.
Jeannette S. Everett is running for treasurer of Southampton
County.
Earva Jones-Sumblin is running for the treasurer's seat.
John Harrup is the commissioner of revenue incumbent.
Edward Marks IV is running for commissioner of revenue.
KEYWORDS: SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY CANDIDATES PROFILE by CNB