Caldwell County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As of the 2020 census,the population was 80,652. Its county seat is Lenoir. Caldwell County is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Deborah Ross is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2021. Her district is based in Raleigh. A member of the Democratic Party,Ross served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2003 to 2013,representing the state's 38th and then 34th House district,including much of northern Raleigh and surrounding suburbs in Wake County.
Walter Greene Church Sr. was a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who represented the state's 86th district,including constituents in Burke County. A banker from Valdese,North Carolina,Church served seven terms in the state House. In November 2008,Church was narrowly defeated by Republican Hugh Blackwell,denying him an eighth term. His son,Walter G. Church,Jr.,won the May 4,2010 Democratic primary to run to regain his father's former seat,but lost in the Fall to State Rep. Hugh A. Blackwell-R. He died in 2012.
George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2004 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,he was first elected in a special election after the resignation of Frank Ballance.
Jonathan C. Jordan is a North Carolina politician and attorney who served as the legislator for the 93rd district of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019. During his first term,Jordan served as the Deputy Majority Whip of the North Carolina House of Representatives. He was elected to office in the 2010 election defeating Cullie Tarleton by fewer than 800 votes. He defeated Tarleton again in 2012 and was reelected in 2014 and 2016,before losing in the 2018 midterm election to Watauga County Democrat Ray Russell,a professor who won with the help of students on the campus of Appalachian State University. Jordan resides in Ashe County,North Carolina and has two children in the public schools. He is an attorney by profession.
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.
John Chadwick "Chad" Barefoot is a former Republican member of the North Carolina Senate,representing North Carolina's 18th Senate district from 2013 to 2018. Senate District 18 covers Franklin County and parts of eastern and southern Wake County.
Ronald Joseph Rabin is a Republican state senator in the state of North Carolina,representing the 12th district,encompassing Harnett,Johnston,Lee Counties. Rabin was born in Rochester,New York in 1932. He attended high school there and then went on to attend the University of Southern Mississippi where he was in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. He also attended the University of Alabama,where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. He was later commissioned into the Army as a second lieutenant of infantry. He is a business consultant in the aerospace and defense industries,having served previously in the United States Army as a Colonel for 24 years. He was elected to the North Carolina Senate on November 5,2012,having defeated Democrat Brad Salmon.
Justin P. Burr is a former representative from the 67th District in the North Carolina House of Representatives. The 67th District includes all of Stanly County and a majority of Montgomery County. Burr,a Republican,resides in Norwood,North Carolina.
Bert Jones was a politician in the North Carolina General Assembly.
William Cook is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he served as member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 2011 to 2019.
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.
Graig R. Meyer is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He has represented the 23rd district since 2023. He previously served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,where he was elected to the 50th district seat 4 times. In 2022,Meyer announced his candidacy for District 23 of the North Carolina Senate,that district includes all of Caswell,Orange and Person counties,and was elected to that seat in November 2022.
Larry Graham Pittman is a former Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. He represented the 83rd district from 2011 to 2023.
James Michael Clampitt is an American politician. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2016 and 2020. Before his election in 2016,he ran unsuccessfully for office for Swain County Board of Commissioners in both 2006 and 2010,and the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2012 and 2014. A Republican,he serves the 119th district,covering portions of Haywood,Jackson,and Swain counties. He was a captain in the Charlotte Fire Department from 1977 to 2004. He is a resident of Bryson City.
Linda Hunt Williams is an American politician. She was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2016 and she served from 2017 until her resignation on August 31,2018. A Republican,she represented the 37th district.
John D. Szoka is an American politician who served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 45th district from 2013 to 2023. A Republican,was first elected in November 2012 and assumed office in January 2013.
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.
Kathy Ellen Manning is an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina,presently representing the state's 6th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party,her district is in the heart of the Piedmont Triad and includes Greensboro and most of Winston-Salem. She was the nominee for North Carolina's 13th congressional district in the 2018 election,and ran for and won the neighboring 6th in the 2020 election after court-ordered redistricting.
North Carolina's 86th House district is one of 120 districts in the North Carolina House of Representatives. It has been represented by Republican Hugh Blackwell since 2009.
