Melvin Luther Watt is an American politician who served as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency from 2014 to 2019. He was appointed by President Barack Obama. He is a former United States Representative for North Carolina's 12th congressional district,from 1993 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
John Irwin Sauls II is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. A pastor from Sanford,North Carolina and former Lee County Commissioner,he has represented the 51st district since 2017. When Sauls returned to the NC House in 2017,he held the position of Republican Freshman Chair. He has been elected to the NC House a total of 5 times,most recently in 2022.
Timothy Keith Moore is an American attorney and politician who has been the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives since 2015 and is now the U.S. Representative-elect for NC-14. A Republican,Moore represents the 111th State House District,which includes Cleveland County. Moore was first elected to the state House in 2002.
Fletcher L. Hartsell Jr. was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly until he admitted to misappropriating over $200,000 in campaign donations. On May 16,2017,he was sentenced in Federal Court in Winston-Salem. NC to eight months in Federal prison. He represented the state's thirty-sixth North Carolina Senate district,including constituents in Cabarrus and Union counties. An attorney from Concord,North Carolina,Hartsell has served in the state Senate since 1991.
Robert Miller Pittenger is a businessman and American politician who was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. The district included several outer portions of Charlotte as well as many of that city's southern and eastern suburbs. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Joe Sam Queen is a North American Democratic Party politician and architect from North Carolina. He has served in both the North Carolina Senate and the North Carolina House of Representatives.
James Calvin Cunningham III is an American lawyer,politician,and retired military officer. A member of the Democratic Party and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve,he served one term as a North Carolina state senator from 2001 to 2003. Having previously run for United States Senate in a 2010 primary,Cunningham was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina,narrowly losing to incumbent Republican Thom Tillis.
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 50th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017,and in the North Carolina General Assembly,in both the House,from 1987 to 1991,and the Senate,from 1991 to 2001.
Sue Ellen Myrick is an American businesswoman and the former U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district,serving from 1995 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Party. She was the first Republican woman to represent North Carolina in Congress. On February 7,2012,she announced that she was retiring. She left Congress in January 2013 and was succeeded by Robert Pittenger.
J. Douglas McCullough is an American lawyer and former judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. McCullough retired in 2017.
Julia Olson-Boseman is an American politician,who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. She represented the state's ninth Senate district,covering all of New Hanover County,from January 2005 to January 2011. She ran in 2010 for District Court Judge in New Hanover County and finished third in the race. In 2016,she ran again for New Hanover County Commission and finished in fourth place where the top three candidates serve.
Michael H. Wray is a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. Wray has represented the 27th district since 2005. Wray is also a small business owner in Gaston,North Carolina.
Mary Price Harrison is an American attorney and politician from North Carolina. Harrison is a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,having first been elected in 2004. She has represented the 61st District,including constituents in central Guilford County,since 2005.
Emmett Wilson Hanger Jr. is an American politician of the Republican Party. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 to 1991,when he was unseated by Creigh Deeds. He then served as member of the Senate of Virginia,representing the 24th district from 1996 to 2024. This district,located in the central Shenandoah Valley and nearby sections of the Blue Ridge Mountains,included the independent cities of Staunton,and Waynesboro,as well as Augusta County,Greene County,Madison County,and parts of Rockingham County and Culpeper County.
The 2010 United States Senate election in North Carolina was held on November 2,2010. The filing deadline for the primaries was February 26;the primaries were held on May 4,with a Democratic primary runoff held on June 22. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Richard Burr won re-election to a second term. Burr is the first incumbent to win re-election for this seat since Sam Ervin's last re-election in 1968.
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.
Joseph Aubrey "John" Faircloth Jr. is a former Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. He represented the 62nd district from 2011 to 2024. The district covers parts of western Guilford County.
Teresa Van Duyn is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. She represented District 49,which encompasses most of Asheville and Buncombe County,North Carolina from 2014 until 2021.
Rosa U. Gill is a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. She has represented the 33rd district since her initial appointment in 2009.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were held on November 6,2018,electing the thirteen U.S. representatives from the State of North Carolina,one from each of the state's congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,as well as elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
