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Governors Club is a golf course community and census-designated place (CDP) in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. [2] It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 1,969. [3] The community is in northern Chatham County, 7 miles (11 km) south of Chapel Hill. It is bordered to the northeast by the Governors ...
The Governors Village is a 450-acre (180-hectare) New Urbanism neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States, [4] with an address of Chapel Hill. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 1,512.
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The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina and commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. There have been 70 governors of North Carolina, with six serving non-consecutive terms, totaling 76 terms. The current governor is Democrat Josh Stein, who took office on January 1, 2025.
He served on the North Carolina Council of State from 1824 to 1827 under governors Hutchins Gordon Burton and James Iredell Jr. [7] Owen returned to the state senate in 1827 but was elected governor by the General Assembly in December 1828, narrowly defeating Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. in a vote of 96 to 92.
James Eubert Holshouser Jr. was born on October 8, 1934, in Boone, North Carolina, United States, to James E. Holshouser and Virginia Dayvault Holshouser. [1] [2] His father was an active member of the Republican Party who attended party meetings and served on the North Carolina State Board of Elections and as a United States Attorney under President Dwight Eisenhower.
Cherry served as mayor of Gastonia from 1919 to 1923, [3] as a member and speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, as chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party (1937–1940), and as a member of the North Carolina Senate. In Gastonia, it was joked that he was the best lawyer in town when sober, and the second-best lawyer in ...