Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a longtime figure in North Carolina Democratic politics who also served as a U.S. ambassador, has died ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a longtime activist and fundraiser in North Carolina and national Democratic politics who served in the 1990s as the U.S. ambassador to several Caribbean ...

Hyde, who was born in Yadkin County in North Carolina's mountains, had a varied career outside of politics, at one time teaching on the Greek island of Crete and working as a social worker and ...