Roy Cooper
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Roy A. Cooper, III (born 1957) is the current North Carolina Attorney General. He is a member of the North Carolina Democratic Party.
Born in Nash County, North Carolina, Cooper was raised in a rural community and worked in tobacco fields during the summer as a teenager. He received the Morehead Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then also earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from UNC.
After practicing law with his family's law firm for a number of years, Cooper was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1986 and named to the North Carolina Senate in 1991. In 1997, he was elected Democratic Majority Leader of the state Senate. He continued to practice law as the managing partner of the law firm Fields & Cooper in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Cooper was elected North Carolina Attorney General in November 2000 and took office on January 6, 2001; he was re-elected for a second term in 2004. Cooper was mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for North Carolina governor, but he has decided to run for re-election as Attorney General in 2008, instead.[1] The current governor, Mike Easley, succeeded to the post of governor after serving as state attorney general.
In January 2007, when Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong asked to be recused from dealing with the Duke lacrosse team rape case, Attorney General Cooper's office assumed responsibility for the case. On April 11, 2007, Cooper dismissed the case against the Duke lacrosse team players.
Cooper has a wife, Kristin, and three daughters, Hilary, Natalie, and Claire.
References
- ↑ newsobserver.com | Cooper says he won't run for governor by Andrea Weigl
External links
- Official bio at the North Carolina Department of Justice
- News & Observer "Under the Dome" Profile
- North Carolina Democratic Party
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