Candidate · State Senate, District 4
Buck Newton
What this job does: Your district's vote in the N.C. Senate. Senators write and vote on state laws and the state budget, approve some of the governor's appointments, and can override the governor's veto with three-fifths of the vote. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Senator, Senate District 4 (since 2023)
- Occupation
- Attorney
- Lives in
- Wilson
Background
- B.A. in political science from Appalachian State University; J.D. from Campbell University School of Law. source: ballotpedia.org
- Attorney in private practice. source: ballotpedia.org
- Served in the N.C. Senate, District 11, 2011-2017. source: ballotpedia.org
- Republican nominee for N.C. Attorney General in 2016; lost to Josh Stein. source: ballotpedia.org
- Has represented Senate District 4 since 2023. source: ballotpedia.org
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