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North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north,the Atlantic Ocean to the east,Georgia and South Carolina to the south,and Tennessee to the west. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its largest city. The Charlotte metropolitan area,with an estimated population of 2,754,842 in 2020,is the most-populous metropolitan area in North Carolina,the 23rd-most populous in the United States,and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Raleigh-Durham-Cary combined statistical area is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state and 32nd-most populous in the United States,with an estimated population of 2,043,867 in 2020,and is home to the largest research park in the United States,Research Triangle Park.
Buncombe County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is classified within Western North Carolina. The 2020 Census reported the population was 269,452. Its county seat is Asheville. Buncombe County is part of the Asheville,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Asheville is a city in,and the county seat of,Buncombe County,North Carolina,United States. Located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers,it is the largest city in Western North Carolina,and the state's 12th-most populous city. According to the 2020 United States Census,the city's population was 94,589,up from 83,393 in the 2010 census. It is the principal city in the four-county Asheville metropolitan area,which had a population of 424,858 in 2010,and of 469,015 in 2020.
Swannanoa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Buncombe County,North Carolina,United States. The population was 4,576 at the 2010 census. The community is named for the Swannanoa River,which flows through the settlement. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The University of North Carolina Asheville is a public liberal arts university in Asheville,North Carolina,United States. UNC Asheville is the only designated liberal arts institution in the University of North Carolina system. UNC Asheville is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges.
Zebulon Baird Vance was the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina,and U.S. Senator,and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.
Leslie Merritt Jr. is an American accountant and politician. A Republican,he served as the Auditor of North Carolina from January 2005 to January 2009. Merrit was born in Sampson County. After graduating from college and marrying he moved to Zebulon and ran an accounting firm. He served on the Wake County Board of Commissioners from 1994 to 1998. He ran for the office of Auditor of North Carolina in 2000 and lost,but was successfully elected four years later. He lost a reelection bid four years later.
Jeter Connelly Pritchard was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit and previously was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Robert Rice Reynolds was an American politician who served as a Democratic US senator from North Carolina from 1932 to 1945. Almost from the outset of his Senate career,"Our Bob," as he was known among his local supporters,acquired distinction as a passionate isolationist and increasingly as an apologist for Nazi aggression in Europe. Even after America's entry into World War II,according to a contemporary study of subversive elements in America,he "publicly endorsed the propaganda efforts of Gerald L. K. Smith," whose scurrilous publication The Cross and the Flag "violently assailed the United States war effort and America's allies." One of the nation's most influential fascists,Smith likewise collaborated with Reynolds on The Defender,an antisemitic newspaper that was partly owned by Reynolds.
Asheville School is a private,coeducational,university-preparatory boarding school in Asheville,North Carolina founded in 1900. The campus sits on 300 acres (120 ha) amid the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains and currently has 295 students enrolled in grades nine through twelve. The campus was named by Architectural Digest magazine in 2018 as the most beautiful private school campus in North Carolina. The school was ranked the seventh best boarding school in the U.S. by independent education organization TheBestSchools.org.
Charles Hart Taylor is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives,representing North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 1991 to 2007.
Edolphus Towns Jr. is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2013. A Democrat from New York,Towns was Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Joseph Heath Shuler is an American businessman,former NFL quarterback,and former U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2007 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition during his tenure. In the 2006 House elections,Shuler defeated incumbent Charles H. Taylor,but retired after his district was redrawn. During his tenure in Congress,Shuler was known for challenging the leadership of his party,and in 2010 ran against Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader.
Asheville High School is a public high school located in Asheville,North Carolina,United States and is one of two secondary schools in the Asheville City Schools system. Designed by Douglas Ellington,construction of the original building began in 1927 and was completed two years later. The modern addition was built in 1970 and a new cafeteria was finished in 2006. There is a second school located at the same address;the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences at Asheville (SILSA).
The Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina is a diocese in the Episcopal Church. It consists of 28 counties in western North Carolina and its episcopal see is in Asheville,North Carolina,seated at Cathedral of All Souls. The first recorded worship from the Book of Common Prayer west of the Catawba River was in 1786. Valle Crucis,where one of the two conference centers is located,began as a missionary outpost in 1842. In 1894,a resolution was adopted in the Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina that the Western part of the state be set aside and offered to the General Church as a Missionary District. The following year,in November 1895,the first Convention of the District of Asheville was held at Trinity Church in Asheville. In 1922,after all the requirements had been fulfilled,a petition from the Jurisdiction of Asheville to become the Diocese of Western North Carolina was presented at the General Convention of The Episcopal Church. It was accepted on September 12,1922.
Maria Beale Fletcher is an American beauty pageant contestant who was Miss America 1962.
Charles Manly Stedman was a politician and lawyer from North Carolina.
Enka is an unincorporated community in Buncombe County,North Carolina,United States. It lies on U.S. Routes 19,23,and 74 Business near the interchange of Interstates 26,40,and 240. It has a post office with the ZIP code 28728.
The Vance Monument was a late 19th-century granite obelisk in Asheville,North Carolina,memorializing Zebulon Baird Vance,a former governor of North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith. The monument was removed by the City of Asheville in May 2021.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina will be held on November 8,2022,to elect the 14 U.S. representatives from the state of North Carolina,one from each of the state's 14 congressional districts. The elections will coincide with other elections to its own House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on May 17,2022.
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- ↑ "North Carolina State Senate elections, 2000". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
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