Laurie Buckhout
What this job does: Your district's one vote in the U.S. House. House members write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and every bill to raise taxes has to start in the House. A term is two years.
- Occupation
- Retired Army colonel; business owner
- Lives in
- Edenton
Background
- Bachelor's degree, James Madison University; master's degree in information management, Webster University. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Served 26 years in the U.S. Army (1984-2010), retiring as a colonel; commanded a battalion task force in Iraq in 2003. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Founded Corvus Consulting, an electronic warfare and cyberspace operations consulting firm, sold in 2019. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy, March-September 2025. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Republican nominee for this seat in 2024; won the March 2026 Republican primary. source: en.wikipedia.org
In their own words
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- "Fixing our broken economy" by cutting federal spending and inflation source: wavy.com
- "We have to secure our border" source: wavy.com
- "Supporting our veterans" with better post-service care source: wavy.com
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