Alamance County is a county in North Carolina. As of the 2020 census,the population was 171,415. Its county seat is Graham. Formed in 1849 from Orange County to the east,Alamance County has been the site of significant historical events,textile manufacturing,and agriculture.
Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the principal city of the Burlington,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area,which encompasses all of Alamance County,in which most of the city is located,and is a part of the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point,NC Combined Statistical Area. The population was 57,303 at the 2020 census,which makes Burlington the 18th-most populous city in North Carolina.
Robert Cannon "Robin" Hayes is an American politician and businessman from North Carolina. A member of the Republican Party,he represented North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009,and was the Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina in 1996. Hayes served as chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party from 2011 to 2013,and from 2016 to 2019. Accused in a bribery scheme in 2019,Hayes pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. On January 20,2021,Hayes was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
John Howard Coble was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district,serving from 1985 to 2015. He was a member of the Republican Party. The district includes all or portions of ten counties in the northern-central part of the state,including portions of Greensboro and Durham.
Cary Dale Allred was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixty-fourth House district,including constituents in Alamance County. A business owner from Burlington,North Carolina,Allred was elected to eight terms in the state House. He previously served two terms in the state Senate. Allred served in the United States Navy,and has also served as an Alamance County commissioner. He spent the majority of his career as a Republican,but following a series of public controversies,he left the Republican Party in 2010 and registered as an independent.
Hugh B. Webster was an accountant,farmer,register of deeds,and North Carolina state senator from Caswell County,North Carolina. As a state senator,he represented North Carolina's 24th Senate district from 1995 to 2006,which included constituents in Alamance,Caswell,and parts of Person counties.
Robert Miller Pittenger is a businessman and American politician who was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. The district included several outer portions of Charlotte as well as many of that city's southern and eastern suburbs. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Walter H. Dalton is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,he served six terms in the state senate before his election to the office of lieutenant governor in 2008.
The lieutenant governor of North Carolina is the second-highest elected official in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the only elected official to have powers in both the legislative and executive branches of state government. A member of the North Carolina Council of State,the lieutenant governor serves a four-year term with a two consecutive term limit. The current lieutenant governor is Mark Robinson,a Republican,who has held the office since 2021. The Constitution of North Carolina designates the lieutenant governor the ex officio president of the State Senate and a member of the State Board of Education. They are also required to serve as acting governor of the state in the event of the governor's absence,and assume the governorship in the event it becomes vacant.
William Woods Holden was an American politician who served as the 38th and 40th governor of North Carolina. He was appointed by President Andrew Johnson in 1865 for a brief term and then elected in 1868. He served until 1871 and was the leader of the state's Republican Party during the Reconstruction Era.
Paul Yelverton Coble served one term as Mayor of Raleigh,North Carolina from December 1999 to December 2001. Coble served on the Wake County Board of Commissioners from 2006 to 2014,and served as chairman of the board from 2010 to 2012. In 2015,he became the Legislative Services Officer for the North Carolina General Assembly.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012,to elect the 13 U.S. representatives from the state of North Carolina. The elections coincided with the U.S. presidential election,N.C. gubernatorial election,statewide judicial elections,Council of State elections and various local elections. Primary elections were held on May 8,2012;for races in which no candidate received 40 percent of the vote in the primary,runoff elections were held on July 17.
Peter Samuel Brunstetter is a former Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state’s 31st Senate district,including constituents in Forsyth County and Yadkin County,North Carolina. He resigned from the legislature,effective Dec. 15,2013,to become executive vice president and chief legal officer for Winston-Salem-based Novant Health. He served with Novant Health until November 2018. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of the University of North Carolina System,headquartered in Chapel Hill,NC,from January 2019 to July 2020.
David Cheston Rouzer is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 7th congressional district. Previously he was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly,representing Johnston County and Wayne County in the 12th district of the North Carolina Senate.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were held on Tuesday,November 4,2014,to elect the 13 U.S. representatives from the state of North Carolina,one from each of the state's 13 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections,including an election to the U.S. Senate.
Four justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 4,2014,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
The 2016 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2016,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Democratic state attorney general Roy Cooper won his first term in office,defeating Republican incumbent Pat McCrory.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were held on November 8,2016,to elect the 13 U.S. representatives from the state of North Carolina,one from each of the state's 13 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
The North Carolina Council of State elections of 2016 were held on November 8,2016,to select the ten officers of the North Carolina Council of State. This elections coincided with the presidential election,elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the Senate and state elections to the General Assembly and judiciary. Primary elections were held March 15.
James Daniel Bishop is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 8th congressional district since 2019,when the district was numbered “9”. As a Republican,his district includes south-central Mecklenburg,Union,Anson,Richmond,Scotland,Robeson,Hoke,and southern Moore Counties. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017 and the Mecklenburg County Commission from 2005 to 2009. He served in the North Carolina State Senate from 2017 to 2019.
