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7 unusual facts about North Carolina General Assembly


A Union in Wait

In 2009 he moved back to North Carolina where he is now working for the North Carolina General Assembly.

Appleton Oaksmith

He was a representative of Carteret County in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1874.

Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music

Dr. Nicholas Erneston was appointed Dean of the newly organized College of Fine and Applied Arts (which included the Music Department), and in 1969 a proposal was presented to the North Carolina General Assembly to construct on campus a fine arts complex which would include an auditorium and buildings for art, music, speech, and drama.

North Carolina General Assembly

After the 1988 election of James Carson Gardner, the first Republican Lt. Governor since Reconstruction, Democrats in control of the Senate shifted most of the power held by the Lt. Governor to the senator who is elected President Pro Tempore (or Pro-Tem).

North Carolina Superior Court

The first three judges elected by the North Carolina General Assembly were Samuel Ashe of New Hanover County, Samuel Spencer of Anson County, and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Iredell of Chowan County.

Our State

Carl Goerch, a journalist known for his newspaper work as well as "Doings of the Legislature" on WPTF radio, told potential advertisers for his new publication that they could drop their ads after the first month if they were not worth the money.

Samuel Spruill

Samuel Spruill served in the Provincial Assembly of North Carolina from 1754 until his death in 1760.


Charles Elliott Johnson

Charles Elliott Johnson is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state's fourth House district, including constituents in Craven, Martin and Pitt counties.

Harris Blake

Harris Blake is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-second Senate district, which includes constituents in Harnett, Lee and Moore counties.

Joanne W. Bowie

Joanne W. Bowie was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-seventh House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

John Blust

John Marshall Blust (born June 4, 1954) is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the state's sixty-second House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

John Louis Taylor

When the North Carolina General Assembly decided to create a full-time, distinct Supreme Court in 1818, the legislators chose three men to make up the new Court: Taylor, Leonard Henderson, and John Hall.

Maggie Jeffus

Margaret A. Moore Jeffus (born October 22, 1934) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-ninth House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

Marian N. McLawhorn

Marian Nelson McLawhorn is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's ninth House district since 1999, including constituents in Pitt County.

Marion A. Parrott

Parrott was a former member of the North Carolina General Assembly, where he was chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments, and one of the founders of Arendell Parrott Academy, which was named for his son who died in 1961, and served as its first president.

Michael A. Gorman

Michael A. Gorman (July 9, 1950 – December 2, 2012) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's third House district, including constituents in Craven and Pamlico counties, from 2003-2004.

Samuel D. Purviance

He was member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the State senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayetteville Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the practice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River in 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West.

Steve Metcalf

He was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-ninth Senate district, including constituents in Buncombe county.

Tod Robinson Caldwell

Caldwell attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was a member of Dialectic Senate, became solicitor for Burke County, and was a member of the General Assembly.

Todd A. Batchelor

Since 2010, Batchelor has served as a staffer in the North Carolina General Assembly, including stints as Sergeant-at-arms, and Legislative Chief of Staff to Rep. David R. Lewis of Dunn, North Carolina.


see also

Charles E. Johnson

Charles Elliott Johnson, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 2003–2004

Chris Heagarty

Previously Heagarty lobbied at the North Carolina General Assembly for principals NC Association of Electric Cooperatives Inc. and BellSouth Corporation.

David Miner

David M. Miner, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1993-2004

Drew Saunders

Drew P. Saunders, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Edward Cole

E. Nelson Cole (Edward Nelson Cole, born 1937), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Eugene Wilson

W. Eugene Wilson, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Gordon Allen

Gordon P. Allen (1929–2010), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Jim Crawford

James W. Crawford, Jr. (born 1937), known as Jim, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

John Carrington

John H. Carrington (born 1934), Republican former member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Keith Williams

Keith P. Williams, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Larry Bell

Larry M. Bell, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Michael Decker

Michael P. Decker, former member of the North Carolina General Assembly

NoPort Southport

In late June, 2010, in rapid succession, all of the six municipalities in the lower Cape Fear area adopted resolutions opposing the NCIT project; the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation prohibiting the use of public funds for the project; and the US Congressman for the affected district, Mike McIntyre, announced his opposition to the project.

Robert Grady

W. Robert Grady, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Tony Moore

Tony P. Moore, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly

William Wainwright

William L. Wainwright (born 1947), member of the North Carolina General Assembly