Cleveland County is a county located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the western Piedmont,on the southern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census,the population was 99,519. Its county seat is Shelby. Cleveland County comprises the Shelby-Kings Mountain,NC Micropolitan Statistical Area,which is also included in the Charlotte-Concord,NC-SC Combined Statistical Area.
Shelby is a city in and the county seat of Cleveland County,North Carolina. It lies near the western edge of the Charlotte-Concord,NC-SC Combined Statistical Area. The population was 21,918 at the 2020 census.
Debbie Ann Clary is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's 46th Senate district,including constituents in Rutherford and Cleveland counties. She previously served in the state House serving the 110th district.
David Franklin Weinstein was a politician in North Carolina. He served as Democratic member of the General Assembly who represented the state's thirteenth Senate district,including Hoke and Robeson counties.
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.
Charlie Smith Dannelly was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly,representing the state's thirty-eighth Senate district between 1995 and 2013. His district includes constituents in Mecklenburg County. A retired educator from Charlotte,North Carolina,Dannelly served several years as Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
David W. Hoyle was an American politician from North Carolina. He was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-third Senate district from 1993 to 2010,and the state's secretary of revenue from 2010 to 2013. A real estate developer from Dallas,North Carolina,he served as the mayor of the town and was a graduate of Lenoir–Rhyne College.
Walter H. Dalton is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,he served six terms in the state senate before his election to the office of lieutenant governor in 2008.
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.
Clyde Roark Hoey was an American Democratic politician from North Carolina. He served in both houses of the state legislature and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. He was North Carolina's governor from 1937 to 1941. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1945 and served there until his death in 1954,only days before the Brown v. Board of Education decision. He was a segregationist.
Oliver Max Gardner was an American politician who served as the 57th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Democratic Party,Gardner worked in the administrations of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
William Robert Webb also known as "Sawney" Webb,was an educator who founded the Webb School and served briefly as a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee.
Edwin Yates Webb was a Democratic United States Representative from North Carolina and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
Patrick Lloyd McCrory is an American politician,businessman,and radio host who served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. McCrory is the only Republican elected as governor of North Carolina in the 21st century. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the 53rd mayor of Charlotte from 1995 to 2009.
Gardner–Webb University is a private Christian liberal arts university in Boiling Springs,North Carolina. It was founded as Boiling Springs High School in 1905. Gardner–Webb is a classified among "Doctoral/Professional Universities".
Thorborn Ross Tolleson Jr. was a Republican state senator from Perry,Georgia closely aligned with former Governor Sonny Perdue. They are both from Houston County,Georgia. On October 30,2015,Tolleson resigned his seat for health reasons,after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Beverly Eaves Perdue is an American businesswoman,politician,and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 73rd governor of North Carolina from 2009 to 2013. She was the first and currently to date the only female governor of North Carolina.
Gladys Ashe Robinson is a health services executive and serves as a Democratic State Senator for the 28th district in the North Carolina General Assembly. She serves as a Deputy Minority Leader and was first elected in 2010.
Rachel H. Hunt is an American politician. She is a member of the North Carolina State Senate and the lieutenant governor-elect of North Carolina. A Democrat,Hunt was elected in November 2022 to represent the 42nd district based in Mecklenburg County. Before that,Hunt served two terms in the North Carolina House,twice beating Republican Bill Brawley. When she is sworn in on January 1,2025,Hunt will become the first Democrat elected to the lieutenant governor’s office since Walter Dalton in 2012,The first child of a previous lieutenant governor to hold the same position since Jim Hunt in 1973 and the second female lieutenant governor of North Carolina,after Bev Perdue.
Fay Lamar Webb-Gardner was an American political hostess,businesswoman,and philanthropist. As the wife of Oliver Max Gardner,she served as the Second Lady of North Carolina from 1917 to 1923 and as First Lady of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933. When her husband's political career took them to Washington,D.C.,she became known as a prominent society and political hostess and was considered one of the most popular figures in American political circles of the time. Webb-Gardner was active in cultural and civic endeavors and was a member of the American Red Cross,the Woman's Missionary Union,the North Carolina Symphony Society,the National Civic League,and the League of Women Voters,as well as Chairwoman of the North Carolina State Advisory Board of Paroles. A Democrat,she served on the North Carolina Democratic Committee and the Democratic National Committee,and was twice elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
