Roy Cooper
What this job does: One of North Carolina's two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and approve or reject the president's picks for federal judges, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet. A term is six years.
- Occupation
- Attorney; former Governor of North Carolina
Background
- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1979); J.D., UNC School of Law (1982). source: ballotpedia.org
- Practiced law at the family firm Fields & Cooper for about 18 years. source: ballotpedia.org
- North Carolina House of Representatives, 1987-1991; North Carolina Senate, 1991-2001 (majority leader from 1997). source: ballotpedia.org
- Attorney General of North Carolina, 2001-2017. source: ballotpedia.org
- Governor of North Carolina, 2017-2025. source: ballotpedia.org
- Won the March 3, 2026 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. source: ballotpedia.org
In their own words
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- Make things cost less: groceries, health care, energy and utility bills, child care and housing source: roycooper.com
- Strengthen the middle class, which "feels like a distant dream" for too many Americans source: roycooper.com
- "What's good for North Carolina is good for America" source: roycooper.com
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