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North Carolina Government & Politics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803268852. Lawrence, David M. (2014). "Chapter 1 : An Overview of Local Government" (PDF). County and Municipal Government (second ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina School of Government. pp. 2– 13. ISBN 978-1-56011-775-9.
The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina and commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. There have been 70 governors of North Carolina, with six serving non-consecutive terms, totaling 76 terms. The current governor is Democrat Josh Stein, who took office on January 1, 2025.
The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Seventy-five people have held the office since the first state governor, Richard Caswell, took office in 1777. [1] The governor serves a term of four years and chairs the collective body of the state's elected executive officials, the Council of State.
North Carolina (/ ˌ k ær ə ˈ l aɪ n ə / ⓘ KARR-ə-LY-nə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia to the southwest, and Tennessee to the west.
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution. In the run-up to the American Civil War, North Carolina reluctantly declared its secession from the Union on May 20, 1861, becoming the tenth of eleven states to join the Confederate States of America. Following the Civil War, the state was ...
Roy Asberry Cooper III was born in Nashville, North Carolina, on June 13, 1957, to Beverly Thorne (née Batchelor) (1929–2013), a teacher and Roy Asberry Cooper II (1927–2015), a lawyer and Democratic Party operative who was a close advisor to Jim Hunt; he later co-chaired Hunt's successful 1976 gubernatorial campaign.
The North Carolina Cabinet is the group of unelected heads of the executive departments of the Government of North Carolina.It is separate and distinct from the North Carolina Council of State, the members of which are elected statewide, and which makes up the rest of the executive leadership of the government.
North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs; North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; North Carolina Department of Revenue; North Carolina Environmental Management Commission; North Carolina Film Office; North Carolina Fund; North Carolina Local Government Commission; North Carolina State Board of Education