[2] He worked as a teacher in Germanton for a year before enrolling in Wake Forest Law School, graduating in 1933.

[4] During World War II he was stationed with coastal artillery units on Trinidad and at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands.

He worked as a deputy clerk at the Superior Court of Guilford County at various times from August 1935 until June 1, 1946, with his active duty military service occurring in the intervening periods.

[3] On February 15, 1947, Governor R. Gregg Cherry appointed Bridges Auditor of North Carolina to replace George Ross Pou, who had died while in office.

[1] His insistence on a coherent system of record-keeping led to conflict between him and the State Highway Commission in the early 1970s.

[7] In 1974 the North Carolina General Assembly, at his request, authorized the creation of an operational audit program.