Redge Hanes

Mr. Hanes’s relatives include a head of the Duke University Medical School and an under secretary of the United States Treasury, who was also the founder of the New York Racing Association. But his grandfather James G. Hanes, a mayor of Winston-Salem and civic leader, was also a founder of a group that sought to sterilize people deemed “mentally unfit.” Gis father, James Jr., presided over the merged Hanes Corporation’s substantial growth and also served as North Carolina state senator in the 1960s. His father, as state senator, sued the county to force a park to integrate. It had been willed to Winston-Salem for white residents by a descendant of R.J. Reynolds, the tobacco magnate, with the stipulation that any challenge would prompt the park to revert to the family. His father was subsequently voted out of office. After working in the family business, Mr. Hanes started his own company, the Xpres Corporation, which, among other things, had a system of printing the winning Super Bowl score on T-shirts within hours. He expanded the business to 1,500 people and sold it in 2008.