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The 2016 United States Senate elections were held on November 8, 2016. The presidential election, House elections, 14 gubernatorial elections, and many state and local elections were held concurrently. In the elections, 34 of the 100 seats—all Class 3 Senate seats —were contested in regular elections; the winners served 6-year terms until ...
The 2020 United States Senate elections were held on November 3, 2020, [1] with the 33 class 2 seats of the Senate contested in regular elections. [2] Of these, 21 were held by Republicans, and 12 by Democrats. The winners were elected to 6-year terms from January 3, 2021, to January 3, 2027. [3]
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Roy Asberry Cooper III was born in Nashville, North Carolina, to Beverly Thorne (née Batchelor), a teacher, and Roy Asberry Cooper II, a lawyer and political consultant who later co-chaired Jim Hunt's 1976 gubernatorial campaign. Cooper attended public school and worked on his parents' tobacco farm during summer. He attended Northern Nash High Scho...
While in law school, then-Governor Jim Hunt appointed Cooper to the State Goals and Policy Board, an advisory group that sought to achieve long- and short-range goals and policies for the state. He was the youngest person ever to serve on the board. Hunt also appointed Cooper to the Interim Balance Growth Board and the North Carolina 2000 Commissio...
Elections
Cooper filed to run for North Carolina attorney general on January 10, 2000. In the November general election, he defeated Republican lawyer Dan Boyce and Reform Party candidate Margaret Palms. He took office on January 6, 2001, and was reelected in 2004. He was easily reelected in 2008, defeating Republican Bob Crumley and garnering more votes than any other statewide candidate that year. Cooper ran unopposed for a fourth term in 2012,and received 2,828,941 votes. Both state and national Dem...
Tenure
In 2001, Cooper initiated legislation that established new mentoring and tutoring programs for middle and high school students out on short-term suspension. Governor Mike Easleysigned the bill in June of that year. In March 2002, after the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles was accused of covering up a Democratic candidate's speeding citation during the 2000 campaign, the North Carolina Republican Party called on Cooper to launch an investigation.Faced with potential fallout for invest...
Transition
Dismayed by Cooper's win, in late 2016 the General Assembly passed special legislation before he was inaugurated to reduce the power of the governor's office. In what The New York Times described as a "surprise special session", Republican legislators moved to strip Cooper's powers before he assumed the governorship. Throughout December, Cooper oversaw an attempt to repeal the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act. The repeal attempt failed after a deal between state Republican and Democra...
Tenure
Cooper was sworn in as governor on January 1, 2017, in a small ceremony. His planned public inauguration was canceled due to a snowstorm. After taking office, as of January 6, 2017, Cooper requested federal approval for Medicaid coverage expansion in North Carolina. Effective January 15, a federal judge halted Cooper's request, an order that expired on January 29. In his first months in office, Cooper focused on repealing the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act. After long negotiations w...
Roy Cooper is married to Kristin Cooper (née Bernhardt), who worked as a guardian ad litem for foster children in Wake County. They have three daughters, who all graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They reside in the Executive Mansion. Cooper has taught Sunday school classes, serving as a deacon and elder at White Memori...
Articles
1. I’m the Governor of North Carolina. This Fringe Claim Before the Supreme Court Would Upend Democracy. The New York Times, December 5, 2022
Works cited
1. North Carolina Manual (PDF). Raleigh: North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State. 2011. OCLC 2623953. 2. Link, William A. (2018). North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State (second ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 9781118833605. 3. Weichelt, Katie (2018). "North Carolina Gubernatorial Election, 2016". Atlas of the 2016 Elections. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538104231. 4. West, Darrell M. (2014). Going Mobile: How Wireless Technology is Resha...
Roy Cooper at BallotpediaAppearances on C-SPAN- Mike Easley, Bev Perdue, Pat McCrory
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Nov 8, 2016 · A total of 34 of the 100 seats were up for regular election. Those elected to the U.S. Senate in the 34 regular elections on November 8, 2016, began their six-year terms on January 3, 2017. Control of the Senate was up for grabs again in 2016. In order to take the chamber back, Democrats needed to gain five seats in 2016, but they fell short ...
Jul 28, 2017 · In the races identified by Cooper’s campaign, Democrats won 47.4 percent of the vote, according to the elections board. They garnered about 32.1 million out of 67.8 million total votes, while ...
