Chuck Edwards | |
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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives from North Carolina's 11th district | |
Assumed office January 3, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Madison Cawthorn |
Member of the North Carolina Senate from the 48th district | |
In office August 19,2016 –January 1,2023 | |
Preceded by | Tom Apodaca |
Succeeded by | Tim Moffitt |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Marion Edwards September 13,1960 Waynesville,North Carolina,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Teresa Edwards |
Children | 2 (1 deceased) |
Education | Blue Ridge Community College |
Website | House website |
Charles Marion Edwards (born September 13,1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he represented the 48th district in the North Carolina Senate from 2016 to 2023. [1] [2]
Edwards was born in Waynesville,North Carolina. He graduated from West Henderson High School in 1978 and studied business,accounting,and marketing at Blue Ridge Community College. [3]
Edwards joined McDonald's in 1989,working as an operations manager until 1991,senior business consultant from 1991 to 1996,and development coordinator from 1996 to 1998. He also worked as the vice president of Henderson County Partners for Economic Progress. [4] In 2013,he became a director of Entegra Financial Corporation. [5] In 2020,Entegra merged with First Citizens Bank. [6]
Edwards was appointed to the North Carolina Senate in August 2016 after Tom Apodaca resigned. He defeated Democratic nominee Norman Bossert in 2016,and was reelected in 2018 and 2020. [7]
On November 30,2021,Edwards declared his candidacy for North Carolina's 11th congressional district in the 2022 election. [8] The district was represented by freshman Republican incumbent Madison Cawthorn. Cawthorn faced numerous scandals,had made a number of controversial statements,and was criticized by Edwards as an ineffective legislator. [9] Edwards was also endorsed by U.S. Senator Thom Tillis.
On May 17,2022,Edwards defeated Cawthorn in the Republican primary with 33.4% of the vote. [10] Although he lost 12 of the district's 15 counties,he carried Buncombe,its most populous,by over 2,000 votes,exceeding his overall margin of 1,338. Edwards also defeated Cawthorn in Henderson County by 3,191 votes. Henderson County is home to both Edwards and Cawthorn. [11]
Edwards voted to provide Israel with support following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. [12] [13]
In January 2024,Edwards introduced legislation which would prevent immigrants from being counted by the United States census,for the purposes of determining the United States congressional apportionment. [14] In February 2024,Edwards posted a picture on X of a large migrant caravan in Mexico in order to criticize the immigration policies of the Biden administration,suggesting that Joe Biden was at fault for the migrants in the picture immigrating to the United States. However,the picture was taken in 2018,during the administration of Donald Trump. [15] [16]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Chuck Edwards | 29,496 | 33.4 | |
Republican | Madison Cawthorn (incumbent) | 28,112 | 31.9 | |
Republican | Matthew Burril | 8,341 | 9.5 | |
Republican | Bruce O'Connell | 6,037 | 6.8 | |
Republican | Rod Honeycutt | 5,775 | 6.5 | |
Republican | Michele Woodhouse | 4,668 | 5.3 | |
Republican | Wendy Nevarez | 4,525 | 5.1 | |
Republican | Kristie Sluder | 1,304 | 1.5 | |
Total votes | 88,258 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Republican | Chuck Edwards | 174,232 | 53.8 | ||
Democratic | Jasmine Beach-Ferrara | 144,165 | 44.5 | ||
Libertarian | David Coatney | 5,515 | 1.7 | ||
Total votes | 323,912 | 100.0 | |||
Republican hold | |||||
Edwards and his wife,Teresa,have had two children. In 2018,his 36 year old son died from a self-inflicted gunshot after a lengthy period of untreated depression. [17]
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