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Roy Cooper
Cooper in 2023
75th Governor of North Carolina
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2017
Lieutenant
Dan Forest Mark Robinson
Preceded by
Pat McCrory
49th Attorney General of North Carolina
In office January 6, 2001 – January 1, 2017
Governor
Mike Easley Bev Perdue Pat McCrory
Preceded by
Mike Easley
Succeeded by
Josh Stein
Majority Leader of the North Carolina Senate
In office July 17, 1997 – January 1, 2001
Leader
Marc Basnight
Preceded by
Richard Conder
Succeeded by
Tony Rand
Member of the North Carolina Senate from the 10th district
In office February 21, 1991 – January 1, 2001
Preceded by
Jim Ezzell
Succeeded by
A. B. Swindell
Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 72nd district
In office February 9, 1987 – February 21, 1991
Preceded by
Allen Barbee
Succeeded by
Edward McGee
Personal details
Born
Roy Asberry Cooper III
(1957-06-13) June 13, 1957 (age 66) Nashville, North Carolina, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Kristin Bernhardt
(m. 1992)
Children
3
Residence
Executive Mansion
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA,
JD)
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Roy Asberry Cooper III (born June 13, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving since 2017 as the 75th governor of North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017 and in the North Carolina General Assembly in both the House of Representatives and Senate from 1987 to 2001.[1]
Cooper graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. He began his career as a lawyer and in 1986 was elected to represent the 72nd district in the North Carolina House of Representatives. In 1991, he was appointed a member of the North Carolina Senate, a position he held until 2001. He was elected North Carolina Attorney General in 2000 and reelected in 2004, 2008, and 2012, serving just under 16 years, the second-longest tenure for an attorney general in the state's history.
Cooper defeated Republican incumbent Pat McCrory for the governorship in a close race in the 2016 election.[2] This election made Cooper the first challenger to defeat a sitting governor in the state's history.[3] Before he took office, the Republican-dominated legislature passed bills in a special session to reduce the power of the governor's office. The legislature has overridden several of Cooper's vetoes of legislation. Cooper was reelected in 2020, defeating Republican nominee and Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest.
^"Journal of the Senate of the 1997 General Assembly of the State of North Carolina|First Session Volume 1" (PDF). carolana.com. 1997. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 9, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
^"Attorney General Announces Candidacy For Governor". Charlotte Observer. November 6, 2014. Archived from the original on November 8, 2014. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
^Dalesio, Emery. "North Carolina Gov. McCrory Concedes He Lost Re-Election Bid". ABC News. Archived from the original on December 5, 2016.
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