James Baxter Hunt Jr. is an American politician and retired attorney who was the 69th and 71st governor of North Carolina. He is the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
The North Carolina General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the state government of North Carolina. The legislature consists of two chambers:the Senate and the House of Representatives. The General Assembly meets in the North Carolina State Legislative Building in Raleigh.
Mark D. Martin is an American jurist who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina from 2014 through 2019. He was appointed by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to become Chief Justice on September 1,2014 upon the retirement of Sarah Parker. Martin was already running for the seat in the 2014 general election.
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.
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.
Donald Gene Davis is an American politician and former Air Force officer serving as the United States representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2023. He was elected to a new term in 2024 in a closely contested race.
Lura Cowles Self Tally was a politician and educator from North Carolina,who served five terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives and six terms in the North Carolina Senate. She is a graduate of Duke University and holds a master's degree from North Carolina State University. The Lura S. Tally Center for Leadership Development is based at Methodist University in Fayetteville,NC.
Harvey Cloyd Philpott was an American businessman and politician who served as the 24th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1961. Philpott grew up in Lexington,North Carolina. Following the completion of his education,he rose to become president and chairman of the board of the United Furniture Corporation. He held several local political offices before being elected to a seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1953 as a Democrat.
Clarence Everett Lightner was an American politician and mortician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as Mayor of Raleigh,North Carolina from 1973 to 1975. He was the first popularly elected Mayor of Raleigh since 1947,and the first African American elected mayor of a mostly-white,major Southern city in the United States.
Neal K. Hunt is an American real estate businessman and politician who served as a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing constituents in Wake County in the fifteenth district of the North Carolina Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2004. He previously served two terms in an at-large seat on the Raleigh City Council.
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.
Carol Ann Alvarado is the state senator for Texas's 6th state senate district. The district includes southeast Houston,and portions of Pasadena. She is a member of the Democratic Party. On December 11,2018,Alvarado won a special election to fill the Senate seat for the 6th district left vacant by the resignation of Sylvia Garcia,who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
James William Copeland was an American politician and jurist who served in the North Carolina Senate representing the 1st District from 1949 to 1959 and as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1975 to 1985.
William Richardson Timmons IV is an American attorney,entrepreneur,and politician serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district since 2019. His district is in the heart of the Upstate and includes Greenville,Spartanburg,and most of their suburbs. A member of the Republican Party,Timmons served as a South Carolina state senator from 2016 to 2018.
Alexander Mack Aikin Jr. was an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate as a Democrat. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1932,and after serving two terms was elected to the Senate in 1937. In total,he served for 46 years in the two chambers of the Texas Legislature,making him the longest-tenured legislator in the history of Texas at the time of his retirement in January 1979.
George Wilmarth "Wiley" Nickel III is an American attorney and Democratic politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 13th congressional district since 2023.
John Wesley Winters Sr. was an American real estate developer,politician,and civil rights activist. A member of the Democratic Party,he served on City Council of Raleigh,North Carolina,from 1961 until 1967 and in the North Carolina Senate for the 14th district from 1975 until 1977.
Victoria Burgess Sawyer is a Republican member of the North Carolina Senate. She represents the Senate's 37th district which includes Iredell and Mecklenburg Counties. Sawyer was previously appointed to serve in the Senate for District 34. Prior to that,she served in Senate District 44 from August 2,2018 to January 2019.
Charles Perry is an accountant and politician serving as a member of the Texas Senate from the 28th district. He assumed office on September 30,2014. He was previously a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 83rd district from 2010 to 2014.
Betty Landon Ray McCain was an American politician and political strategist. She was the North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources during Governor Jim Hunt's administration and was the first woman to chair the North Carolina Democratic Party. She was also the first woman named to the state's Advisory Budget Committee. As Secretary of Cultural Resources,McCain opened the North Carolina Museum of History,rededicated USS North Carolina (BB-55),and secured funding for the excavation of the Queen Anne's Revenge. She received the North Carolina Award in 2009 and was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame in 2010.
