John Dennis Hastert is an American former politician,educator,convicted felon and child sex offender who represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in history. After Democrats gained a majority in the House in 2007,Hastert resigned and began work as a lobbyist. In 2016,he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys.
Michael Francis Easley is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 72nd governor of North Carolina from 2001 to 2009. He is the first governor of North Carolina to have been convicted of a felony. The conviction was later expunged by the Chief Judge of the Superior Court of Wake County. A member of the Democratic Party,Easley was North Carolina's second Catholic governor.
Thomas Edward Wright was a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who represented the state's eighteenth district,including constituents in New Hanover and Pender counties,from 1992 to 2008. An EMS instructor from Wilmington,North Carolina,Wright was serving his eighth term in the House when he was expelled from that chamber in 2008. A jury subsequently convicted him of corruption and embezzlement,sending him to jail for a 6-8 year term.
Joe Hackney served for 16 terms as a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the state's fifty-fourth House district,including constituents in Chatham,Orange,and Moore counties. A farmer and attorney from Chapel Hill,Hackney served as Speaker of the House for two terms and thereafter served as House Minority Leader until he chose to retire rather than seek another term in the legislature in 2012.
Lorene Thomason Coates is an American former politician who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the seventy-seventh House district,including constituents in Rowan county from 2001 to 2011.
Michael Paul Decker Sr. is a former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who represented the 94th district,including constituents in Forsyth County. A former teacher from Walkertown,North Carolina,Decker served 10 terms in the state House,ending with the 2003-2004 session. He was born in Red Bud,Illinois.
Frank Winston Ballance Jr. was an American politician and attorney who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2004,representing North Carolina's 1st congressional district.
Roy Asberry Cooper III is an American attorney and politician serving since 2017 as the 75th governor of North Carolina. 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 from 1987 to 2001.
Ralph Bradley Miller is an American attorney and former U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 13th congressional district,serving from 2003 to 2013. District 13 included all of Caswell and Person counties,and parts of Alamance,Granville,Guilford,Rockingham and Wake counties. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Harold Martin Lancaster,O.B.E. is an American politician who is the former President of the North Carolina Community College System and former Chair of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges. He was also United States Representative from North Carolina from 1987 to 1995.
The 2008 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 4,2008,coinciding with the presidential,U.S. Senate,U.S. House elections,Council of State and statewide judicial elections. Democrat Bev Perdue won the election. With a margin of 3.39%,this election was the closest race of the 2008 gubernatorial election cycle.
Daniel Terry Blue Jr. is an American politician and attorney serving as a member of the North Carolina Senate,representing the state's 14th Senate district,and is the Senate minority leader.
The Alaska political corruption probe refers to a 2003 to 2010 widespread investigation by the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice,the Federal Bureau of Investigation,and the Internal Revenue Service into political corruption of nine then-current or former Alaskan state lawmakers,as well as Republican US Representative Don Young and then-US Senator,Republican Ted Stevens. Sometimes referred to as "The Corrupt Bastards Club" or the "Operation Polar Pen",the investigation focused on the oil industry,fisheries and for-profit prison industries.
North Carolina elections to choose members of the Council of State were held November 4,2008. This coincided with the presidential,U.S. Senate,U.S. House,gubernatorial,and statewide judicial elections.
Peter Kott is a former Republican state representative for District 17 serving Eagle River,Alaska,in the Alaska Legislature for seven terms,from 1993 until 2007. He was Speaker of the House during his sixth term in 2003–2004.
Josiah Turner,Jr. was an American lawyer,politician and newspaper editor from North Carolina.
The Federal Medical Center,Butner,is a United States federal prison opened in 1995 in North Carolina for male inmates of all security levels who have special health needs. It is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Complex and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male inmates.
Patrick DeAngelo Cannon is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served on the City Council of Charlotte,North Carolina from 1994 through 2013 and was subsequently elected the city's 56th Mayor in November 2013. On March 26,2014,Cannon was arrested on charges of accepting over $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen wanting to work with the city. Cannon resigned as mayor later that evening,and was later sentenced to 44 months in prison.
Glenn Allen Maynor is an American retired law enforcement officer and politician who served as Sheriff of Robeson County,North Carolina from 1994 until 2004.
