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Actor-politician Acting career Political party Political career Source Clay Aiken: Actor and singer: Democratic: Democratic nominee for the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina's 2nd district. Unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination in North Carolina’s 4th district in 2022. Alan Autry: Actor ...
Four years ago, President Joe Biden lost to Trump by less than 2 percentage points in North Carolina. Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court uprooted the half-century long precedent that was Roe v.
Burr Brock Sr., North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina Senate; Jim Broyhill, a Republican politician; served North Carolina in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; Ted Budd, former United States Representative and United States Senator from North Carolina [27] Richard Burr, United States Senator
Franklin McCain, one of The Greensboro Four, African-American student from North Carolina A&T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in; action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States; attended Dudley [80] Courtney McClellan, interdisciplinary artist [81]
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Cal Cunningham, North Carolina’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020, lost his race to Republican Thom Tillis after a damaging story about an affair surfaced just a month before the ...
Susan C. Fisher, North Carolina House of Representatives; D. Bruce Goforth, North Carolina House of Representatives; V. Lamar Gudger, United States House of Representatives; Bill Hendon (1944–2018), author, POW/MIA activist, and two-term U.S. Congressman from North Carolina; Patricia Hollingsworth Holshouser (1939–2006), First Lady of North ...
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...