The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill,North Carolina. It is the flagship of the University of North Carolina system and is considered to be one of the "Public Ivies". After being chartered in 1789,subsequent to the first land-grant university,the University of Georgia,the university first began enrolling students in 1795,making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States. Among the claimants,the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the only one to have held classes and graduated students as a public university in the eighteenth century.
Elliott Abrams is an American politician and lawyer,who has served in foreign policy positions for presidents Ronald Reagan,George W. Bush,and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative. He is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela from 2019 to 2021 and as the U.S. Special Representative for Iran from 2020 to 2021.
David Ernest Duke is an American white supremacist,antisemitic conspiracy theorist,and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992,he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party. His politics and writings are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews,such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia,the press,and the financial system. In 2013,the Anti-Defamation League described Duke as "perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite".
Roy Asberry Cooper III is an American attorney and politician,serving as the 75th governor of North Carolina since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 49th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017 and in the North Carolina General Assembly in both the House of Representatives and Senate between 1987 and 2001.
Walter Beaman Jones Jr. was an American politician who served twelve terms in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district from 1995 until his death in 2019. The district encompassed the coastal regions of North Carolina,from the Outer Banks and areas near the Pamlico Sound in the north,southwards to the northern suburbs of Wilmington. Jones's father was Walter B. Jones Sr.,a Democratic Party congressman from the neighboring 1st district. Prior to his election to the U.S. House of Representatives,he served ten years in the North Carolina House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party and worked as a business executive.
Carolina Herrera is a Venezuelan fashion designer known for her personal style,and for dressing various First Ladies,including Jacqueline Onassis,Laura Bush,Michelle Obama,and Melania Trump.
Ralph Warren Norman Jr. is an American real estate developer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district since 2017. His district includes most of the South Carolina side of the Charlotte metropolitan area,along with outer portions of the Upstate and Midlands. A member of the Republican Party,Norman served as the South Carolina state representative for the 48th district from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2017.
Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician and president of Venezuela since 2013.
Nimarata Nikki Haley is an American politician who served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party,she was the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations for two years,from January 2017 through December 2018. She is also the first Indian American to serve as a member of a presidential cabinet.
The history of Venezuela reflects events in areas of the Americas colonized by Spain starting 1502;amid resistance from indigenous peoples,led by Native caciques,such as Guaicaipuro and Tamanaco. However,in the Andean region of western Venezuela,complex Andean civilization of the Timoto-Cuica people flourished before European contact.
Duncan Duane Hunter is an American former politician and United States Marine who served as a U.S. representative for California's 50th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. He is a member of the Republican Party,who was first elected to the House in 2008. His district,numbered as the 52nd from 2009 to 2013,encompassed much of northern and inland San Diego County and a sliver of Riverside County,including the cities of El Cajon,Escondido,San Marcos,Santee and Temecula. He served in the U.S. Marines from 2001 through 2005 and succeeded his father,Republican Duncan Lee Hunter,a member of Congress from 1981 to 2009.
Robert Hunter Biden is an American attorney,businessman and artist who is the second son of U.S. President Joe Biden and his first wife Neilia Hunter Biden. He is also a hedge fund,venture capital,and private-equity fund investor who formerly worked as a lobbyist,banker,public administration official,and registered lobbyist-firm attorney. Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners,a Chinese investment company. In 2020,he began exhibiting his paintings.
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.
Mark Randall Meadows is an American politician who served as the 29th White House chief of staff from 2020 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he also served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. During his legislative tenure,Meadows chaired the Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019. He was considered one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress before his appointment as chief of staff.
Lindsey Graham,the senior United States senator from South Carolina and former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district,announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president on June 1,2015,at an event in his hometown of Central,South Carolina. Although he was praised for solid,often humorous debate performances,the campaign never gained any traction,and was suspended on December 21,2015.
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 as the 9th. 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.
Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place in many U.S. states,the District of Columbia,and five U.S. territories from February 3 to August 11,2020,to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party's presidential nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election,and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.
Daniel Kent McCready is an American veteran,entrepreneur,civil rights activist,and former political candidate from Charlotte,North Carolina. He served in the United States Marine Corps,achieving the rank of captain.
The Venezuelan presidential crisis was a political crisis concerning the leadership and the legitimate president of Venezuela which lasted from 2019 to 2023,with the nation and the world divided in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó.
The 2020 congressional election in North Carolina's 11th congressional district was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,to determine the next Representative to the United States House of Representatives from the 11th district. On December 19,2019,incumbent Representative Mark Meadows announced his retirement and was appointed White House Chief of Staff on March 30,2020,leaving the seat vacant.
