Personal
McColl supported Bill Clinton for President, at one time voted for George W. Bush, and supported Barack Obama for President. Speaking of his political viewpoints, McColl said in 2000,
| “ | I guess, by today's definition, I'm a liberal. The reason I am is, I believe that a chief guarantee of our country, of citizenship, is the right of freedom of speech, the right to be who we are. | ” |
Two books have been written about McColl:
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- McColl: The Man with America's Money (1999) by Ross Yockey
- The Story of NationsBank: Changing the Face of American Banking (2001) by Howard E. Jr. Covington and L. William Seidman, (former head of the FDIC).
A 2008 book, Dearest Hugh:The Courtship Letters of Gabrielle Drake and Hugh Mccoll, 1900–1901 edited by Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley, recounts via their letters the courtship of his grandparents, D.D.McColl and Gabrielle Palmer Drake McColl (1882–1964).
The library the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's South Historical Collection maintains a collection of approximately 8,600 McColl family papers. The South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina maintains the Duncan Donald McColl Papers.
On Oct. 3, 1959, McColl married Jane Bratton Spratt McColl of York, South Carolina — daughter of a banker and sister of former Congressman John Spratt (D-SC). They have three children, Hugh Leon McColl IV (1960- ), John Spratt McColl (1963- ), and Jane Bratton McColl Lockwood (1967- ) and eight grandchildren.
McColl is member of Augusta National Golf Club. In 2005 McColl, an avid quail hunter, leased 25,000 acres (100 km2) of the Kenedy Ranch, a longhorn-cattle ranch in the Falfurrias ranch area of Kenedy County, Texas.
In 2010, UNC-TV conducted a series of interviews with McColl, titled Biographical Conversations with Hugh Leon McColl Jr., to air in three segments.
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