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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 ...
Eva Clayton (born 1934), U.S. Congresswoman from North Carolina 1992–2003; she graduated from Johnson C. Smith University and North Carolina Central University Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American Book Award-winning author of Blood Run and other novels (raised in North Carolina, various counties)
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.
This free interaction between people on Facebook attracted political figures to use social media by to help promote their ideals. The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, served as a field organizer for Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. [17] Zuckerberg was responsible for get-out-the-vote and other mobilization efforts.
Political party Year founded Former names Ideology Mergers/Splits International affiliations African People's Socialist Party: 1972 Merger of: Junta of Militant Organizations Black Rights Fighters Black Study Group Uhuru Movement: American Indian Movement: 1968 Pan-Indianism: Black Hammer Party: 2019 Black nationalism Black separatism Black ...
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 ...
Following a contentious certification process, a new centrist political party backed by former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory has been officially recognized in North Carolina.
Ken Jeong, actor, grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Page High School; starred in NBC sitcom Community [61] Dr. Frank Jobe, orthopedic surgeon, invented UCL reconstruction known as Tommy John surgery [62] Robert Elijah Jones, early African American Bishop in the Methodist Church [63]