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This General Assembly ceded the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to the U.S. Government as part of North Carolina's national debt. This assembly elected the first two U.S. senators from North Carolina and established a process for the people to elect five members to the U.S. House of Representatives in early 1790.
The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the North Carolina Senate. Representatives serve two-year terms.
The constitution of North Carolina vests the state's legislative power in the General Assembly; [85] the General Assembly writes state laws/statutes. [63] [62] Legislation in North Carolina can either be in the form of general laws or special/local laws. General laws apply to the entire state, while local laws apply only to specific counties or ...
Pages in category "Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 316 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of North Carolina. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from North Carolina. The list of names should be ...
The North Carolina General Assembly 2021–22 session was the state legislature that first convened in January 2021 and concluded in December 2022. Members of the North Carolina Senate and the North Carolina House of Representatives were elected in November 2020.
Abraham Penn Jones (born March 7, 1952) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who has represented the 38th district (including parts of Wake County) since 2021. [1] [2] Jones was born in Wilson, North Carolina. He graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and went on to Harvard Law School where he earned his J.D ...
The North Carolina Senate is the upper chamber of the North Carolina General Assembly, which along with the North Carolina House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises the state legislature of North Carolina. The Senate has 50 members, and the term of office for each senator is two years.