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Former Governor Roy Cooper is running for the open Senate seat in North Carolina.
Cooper was born and raised in Nash County, North Carolina, where he attended public schools and worked summers on a farm before earning undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cooper practiced law for 18 years before running for the NC House.
In the NC House and Senate, Gov. Cooper fought to increase teacher pay and reduce class sizes. He wrote North Carolina’s first children’s health insurance initiative. In 2000, the people of North Carolina elected Gov. Cooper as Attorney General, where he continued to fight for families during his four terms.
Elected Governor in 2016 and re-elected in 2020, both years in which Donald Trump carried North Carolina, Cooper’s mission was to ensure that all North Carolinians had the opportunity to be better educated, healthier, and more prosperous for generations to come.
