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Roy Cooper
Order:75th Governor of North Carolina
Term Start:January 1, 2017
Predecessor:Pat McCrory
Office1:49th Attorney General of North Carolina
Term Start1:January 6, 2001
Term End1:January 1, 2017
Predecessor1:Mike Easley
Successor1:Josh Stein
Office2:Majority Leader of the North Carolina Senate
Term Start2:July 17, 1997
Term End2:January 1, 2001
Predecessor2:Richard Conder
Successor2:Tony Rand
State Senate3:North Carolina
District3:10th
Term Start3:February 21, 1991
Term End3:January 1, 2001
Predecessor3:Jim Ezzell
Successor3:A. B. Swindell
State House4:North Carolina
District4:72nd
Term Start4:February 9, 1987
Term End4:February 21, 1991
Predecessor4:Allen Barbee
Successor4:Edward McGee
Birth Name:Roy Asberry Cooper III
Birth Date:13 June 1957
Birth Place:Nashville, North Carolina, U.S.
Party:Democratic
Children:3
Residence:Executive Mansion
Education:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA,

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Signature:Roycoopersig.svg

Roy Asberry Cooper III ([1] ; born June 13, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving since 2017 as the 75th governor of North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017, and in the North Carolina General Assembly, in both the House, from 1987 to 1991, and the Senate, from 1991 to 2001.[2]

Cooper graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. He began his career as a lawyer and in 1986 was elected to represent the 72nd district in the North Carolina House of Representatives. In 1991, he was appointed a member of the North Carolina Senate, a position he held until 2001. He was elected North Carolina Attorney General in 2000 and reelected in 2004, 2008, and 2012, serving just under 16 years, the second-longest tenure for an attorney general in the state's history.

Cooper defeated Republican incumbent Pat McCrory for the governorship in a close race in the 2016 election.[3] This election made Cooper the first challenger to defeat a sitting governor in the state's history. Cooper was reelected in 2020 against the Republican nominee, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest.[4] The Republican-dominated legislature passed bills in a special session to reduce the power of the governor's office before he took office, but Cooper continued to emphasize increases in education and healthcare funding throughout his tenure, culminating in successful negotiations of statewide Medicaid expansion.

Early life and education

Roy Asberry Cooper III was born in Nashville, North Carolina, to Beverly Thorne (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.[5] [6] Cooper attended public schools and worked on his parents' tobacco farm during summers.[7] He attended Northern Nash High School and as a senior was selected to represent Nash County in the Youth Legislative Assembly.[8] He graduated in 1975.

Cooper received the Morehead Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his undergraduate studies. As an undergraduate at UNC, he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity and was elected president of the university's Young Democrats.[9] He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1982.

Early career

While Cooper was still in law school, then-Governor Jim Hunt appointed him to the State Goals and Policy Board, an advisory group that sought to achieve long- and short-range goals and policies for the state.[10] He was the youngest person ever to serve on the board.[11] Hunt also appointed Cooper to the Interim Balance Growth Board and the North Carolina 2000 Commission.[12] He was also a member of the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce and UNC-Chapel Hill's Board of Visitors.[13]

In 1982, Cooper joined the law firm Fields, Cooper & Henderson in Nashville, North Carolina, the same firm his father had been a founding member of.[14] [15] [16] Three years later, he was named a partner in the firm.[17] In 1984, Cooper served as the Rocky Mount and Nash County chairman of Lauch Faircloth's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign.[12]

State legislature

On November 19, 1985, Cooper filed to run for the North Carolina House of Representatives in the 72nd district.[18] He challenged 12-term incumbent Allen Barbee in the Democratic primary and ran on a campaign of supporting agriculture and resolving a school merger dispute in Nash County.[19] [20] Cooper won the primary with 76% of the vote to Barbee's 24%, including more than a six times gap in votes for Nash county (5,966 vs 884), and he was unopposed in the general election.[21] [22]

Cooper continued to practice law while serving in the legislature.[23] The nonpartisan North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research ranked him the most effective freshman representative.[24] In January 1989, he joined Republicans and 20 other dissident Democrats to unseat Speaker Liston B. Ramsey in favor of Josephus Mavretic,[25] who appointed Cooper chair of the House Judiciary Committee, of which he had been a member during his first term.[26] Cooper also voted with all House Republicans and 15 Democrats in favor of an unsuccessful attempt to amend the constitution to grant the governor veto power over legislation.[27]

In February 1991, after State Senator Jim Ezzell was killed in a car crash, Cooper was appointed to the Senate to serve the remainder of Ezzell's term representing the 10th district, which encompassed parts of Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, and Wilson Counties.[28] [29] In 1995, Cooper negotiated a compromise bill to schedule a referendum to amend the constitution and grant the governor veto power.[27] In July 1997, he was elected Majority leader of the Senate upon Richard Conder's abrupt resignation.[30] During his last term in the Senate, he was elected to the North Carolina Bar Association's Board of Governors, a position he held until June 2002.[13]

Cooper's accomplishments in the legislature include implementing penalties for minors who bring guns to school, making public records more accessible, toughening the state's open meetings law, and giving the governor more veto power.[29]

North Carolina Attorney General

Elections

In January 2000, Cooper filed with the state Board of Elections to launch a campaign for North Carolina attorney general.[31] In the November general election, he defeated Republican lawyer Dan Boyce and Reform Party candidate Margaret Palms.[32] He took office on January 6, 2001, and was reelected in 2004. He was easily reelected in 2008, defeating Republican Bob Crumley and garnering more votes than any other statewide candidate that year.[33] Cooper ran unopposed for a fourth term in 2012,[34] and received 2,828,941 votes.[35]

Both state and national Democrats attempted to recruit Cooper to run for governor in 2008,[36] the U.S. Senate in 2010,[37] and again for governor in 2012, but he declined each time.[38] A 2009 Public Policy Polling survey matching him against incumbent U.S. Senator Richard Burr showed Cooper leading Burr by four points.[39]

Tenure

In 2001, Cooper initiated legislation that established new mentoring and tutoring programs for middle and high school students out on short-term suspension.[40] Governor Mike Easley signed the bill in June of that year.[41]

In 2002, a controversy arose after the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles was accused of covering up the speeding citation issued for Democratic U.S. House candidate James Ferguson during the 2000 campaign, and the North Carolina Republican Party called on Cooper to launch an investigation.[42] Faced with potential fallout for investigating members of his own party, Cooper called on federal prosecutors to convene an investigative grand jury, arguing that they had powers to compel testimony not available to the state.[43] [44]

In January 2007, when Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong asked to be recused from dealing with the Duke lacrosse case, Cooper's office assumed responsibility for the case. On April 11, 2007, after revelations of Nifong's withholding of evidence, fabrications, and other ethics violations, Cooper dismissed the case against the Duke lacrosse team players, taking the extraordinary step of declaring them "innocent" and victims of a "tragic rush to accuse".[45] The decision won him bipartisan praise.[9] Days after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, Cooper created the Campus Safety Task Force to analyze school shootings and make policy recommendations to help the government prevent and respond to them. The task force delivered its report in January 2008. After the release of its findings, Cooper assisted members of the North Carolina General Assembly in passing a law that required court clerks to record involuntary commitments in a national gun permit database.

After a 2010 decision by a three-judge panel to exonerate Gregory Taylor, who had served nearly 17 years for the first-degree murder of Jaquetta Thomas, Cooper ordered an audit after it was learned that officials at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation forensic lab had withheld information.[46] This suppression of evidence had contributed to Taylor's conviction for murder. The audit was released in 2010; it found that it had been common practice for two decades for a select group of agents at the State Bureau of Investigation to withhold information.[47] In addition, they did not keep up with scientific standards and the latest tests. The two investigators, Chris Swecker and Micheal Fox, cited almost 230 cases tainted by these actions. Three people convicted in such cases had been executed; 80 convicts were still in prison. A massive state effort was undertaken to follow up on their cases.

In 2011 Cooper argued his first case before the United States Supreme Court, J. D. B. v. North Carolina, a case related to Miranda rights in juvenile cases.[48] [49] The Court ruled 5–4 against North Carolina.[50] [51]

In 2014, after a major coal ash spill in the Dan River, then-Governor Pat McCrory accused Cooper of politicizing the incident after Cooper criticized Duke Energy, the company responsible for the spill.[52] McCrory later accused Cooper of "fighting against" efforts to clean up the spill, a claim WRAL-TV called "nonexistent".[53]

Governor of North Carolina

Elections

2016

See main article: 2016 North Carolina gubernatorial election. Cooper ran for governor of North Carolina in the 2016 election against incumbent Republican Pat McCrory.[3] In March 2016, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act—commonly known as "House Bill 2"—which McCrory signed into law. Numerous corporations began boycotting the state in protest of the law, cancelling job investment and expansion plans. Cooper denounced the law as unconstitutional and refused to defend it in court in his capacity as attorney general.

As a result of the economic damage the law caused, McCrory's approval rating fell dramatically in the months before the election. When initial election results showed Cooper leading, McCrory claimed without evidence that the election had been manipulated by voter fraud. Recounts resulted in slightly higher margins of victory for Cooper, and after an extended legal battle, McCrory conceded the election on December 5.[54] Out of 4.7 million total ballots, Cooper won by 10,227 votes.[55]

2020

See main article: 2020 North Carolina gubernatorial election. On December 5, 2019, Cooper announced his candidacy for reelection.[56] He won the November 3 election, defeating Republican nominee Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest by 4.5 points.[57]

Transition

Dismayed by Cooper's win, in late 2016 the General Assembly passed special legislation before he was inaugurated to reduce the power of the governor's office.[58] In what The New York Times described as a "surprise special session", Republican legislators moved to strip Cooper's powers before he assumed the governorship.[59] Throughout December, Cooper oversaw an attempt to repeal the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act. The repeal attempt failed after a deal between state Republican and Democratic lawmakers and Charlotte officials fell apart.

Tenure

Cooper was sworn in as governor on January 1, 2017, in a small ceremony. His planned public inauguration was canceled due to a snowstorm.[60]

After taking office, as of January 6, 2017, Cooper requested federal approval for Medicaid coverage expansion in North Carolina.[61] Effective January 15, a federal judge halted Cooper's request, an order that expired on January 29.[62] [63] In his first months in office, Cooper focused on repealing the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act. After long negotiations with Republican state legislators, Cooper agreed in late March to sign a law prohibiting North Carolina cities from passing local ordinances pertaining to public accommodations or employment practices for three years in exchange for the reversal of the facilities act.[64] On May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Cooper to a commission tasked with reducing opioid addiction.[65]

After the Supreme Court of the United States declared North Carolina's legislative maps unconstitutional,[66] Cooper called for a special redistricting session on June 7, 2017,[67] but the House and Senate canceled the session, calling it unconstitutional.[68] On June 29, Cooper signed the STOP Act, an overhaul of the prescribing and dispensing regulations of opioids.[69]

On July 1, Cooper signed into law a bill that allows alcohol sales after 10 AM on Sundays, nicknamed the "Brunch Bill".[70] On July 11, he signed "Britny's Law", which makes homicide first-degree murder if the killing was committed with malice and the defendant has been convicted of domestic violence or stalking the victim. He also signed bills to allow domestic violence protective orders granted by a judge to fully go into effect even when they are under appeal and to expand the state's "revenge porn" law from cases involving former lovers to those involving strangers.[71] On July 12, Cooper signed a bill that would add lessons on what to do when pulled over by law enforcement to the state's driver's education curriculum. The bill passed both chambers unanimously.[72]

On July 26, 2017, Cooper signed a bill to mount cameras on school buses in order to discourage drivers from illegally passing stopped buses.[73] On August 31, 2017, he declared a state of emergency due to plummeting gas supply,[74] which was rescinded on September 18.[75]

Fellow Appalachian governors elected Cooper co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission for 2019, making him the first North Carolina governor to co-chair the ARC since Jim Hunt in 1978.[76] In the 2018 elections, the Republican Party lost seats in the General Assembly, ending its supermajorities in both houses and rendering it unable to override gubernatorial vetoes.[77] On March 6, 2019, Cooper proposed a $25.2 billion budget for the year. It included salary increases for public school teachers and state workers, expansion of Medicaid, and a $3.9 billion bond (subject to a referendum) to help fund school construction and local infrastructure projects. Cooper said that he was confident he could get the legislature, without enough Republican members to override a veto, to implement some of his ideas.[78] On February 11, 2020, Cooper announced the creation of a Novel Coronavirus Task Force for North Carolina ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic.[79] On March 10, Cooper declared a state of emergency after the seventh reported case was identified in the state.[80] Four days later, he issued an executive order banning gatherings of over 100 people, and closed all K-12 schools for two weeks.[81] In June, he imposed a statewide face mask requirement for all areas open to the public.[82]

It was speculated that Cooper might run for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Republican Richard Burr in 2022, but he announced in March 2021 that he would not.[83]

On March 27, 2023, Cooper signed into law landmark legislation expanding Medicaid after the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed the bill through both houses, despite almost a decade of GOP opposition. It is estimated that over 600,000 low-income North Carolinians will become eligible for the state's Medicaid program.[84]

After President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and Vice President Kamala Harris announced her presidential campaign in July 2024, Cooper was named as a possible running mate for her.[85] He was reportedly seriously considered for the position and received vetting materials during the process,[86] [87] but on July 29, he withdrew his name from consideration without giving a reason.[88]

Vetoes

During his first two years in office, Cooper faced a Republican supermajority in the General Assembly capable of overriding his vetoes, thereby limiting his legislative influence.[89] His first veto as governor was of a bill that would make elections to the North Carolina Superior Court and to the District Court partisan, after being conducted on a nonpartisan basis for many years.[90] The House overrode the veto on March 22, 2017.[91] The Senate followed suit on March 23, resulting in the bill becoming law over Cooper's objection.[92]

Cooper vetoed a bill on April 21, 2017, to reduce the size of the North Carolina Court of Appeals by three judges.[93] The veto was overridden on April 26.[94] He also vetoed a bill on April 21, 2017, that would create a new State Board of Elections (and new county boards of elections) split evenly between the Republicans and the Democrats. It would replace the longstanding system that gave the governor's party a majority on the board. Both houses of the legislature voted to override the veto on April 24 and 25.[95] Cooper also vetoed a bill that would limit individuals' ability to sue hog farms.[96] The legislature also overrode this veto.[97] [98] On June 27, Cooper vetoed the proposed state budget, which he had called "irresponsible" the day before.[99] In his veto message, he cited the budget's income tax cuts and argued it "lacks structural integrity by failing to account for population growth, inflation and looming federal reductions, by using one-time revenue for recurring expenses, and by adopting a tax plan that will cause the state to fail to fund promised teacher salary increases in future years". He said the proposed bill included "provisions that infringe upon the governor's ability to faithfully execute the laws, including the administration of this Act, as required by the Constitution, and violating the separation of powers". The legislature overrode his veto the next day.[100]

In July 2017, Cooper vetoed a bill to authorize nonprofit organizations to operate "game nights", saying it would unintentionally create a new opportunity for the video poker industry.[101]

In December 2018, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill that would require new primary elections if a do-over election was called in the 9th district election.[102] Cooper vetoed the bill due to a provision that made campaign finance investigations less public, but the General Assembly overrode his veto.[103] In total, during his first two years in office, Cooper vetoed 28 bills, 23 of which were overridden by the legislature.[104] As a result of the 2018 legislative elections, the Republicans lost their supermajority in the General Assembly, thus giving Cooper and legislative Democrats more leverage in legislative negotiations.[89]

In May 2019, Cooper vetoed a bill that proposed punishments in the form of prison time and fines against physicians and nurses who do not resuscitate newborns that survive an abortion.[105] He said that the "bill is an unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients"[106] and that laws "already protect newborn babies".[107]

Personal life

Roy Cooper is married to Kristin Cooper (née Bernhardt), who worked as a guardian ad litem for foster children in Wake County.[108] [109] They have three daughters, who all graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[110] [111] They reside in the Executive Mansion. Cooper has taught Sunday school classes, serving as a deacon and elder at White Memorial Presbyterian Church,[112] and is an avid fan of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes.[113]

Pronunciation of surname

In 2023, Cooper said that his last name should actually be pronounced, with the letters "oo" resembling the "oo" sound in "foot", as opposed to the more conventional, which most people have called him for many years. He explained that the former is a local pronunciation of "Cooper" in Eastern North Carolina, where he grew up in Nash County, and his name was always said this way until he went to college. But he said that he is fine with people using the latter, more common pronunciation.[1]

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  73. Web site: Cooper signs bill to mount cameras on school buses. July 25, 2017. WRAL.com. February 1, 2021. November 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201129112255/https://www.wral.com/cooper-to-sign-law-to-mount-cameras-on-school-buses/16839706/. live.
  74. Web site: Colonial Pipeline now projecting to reopen Monday. Elaina. Athans. Joel. Brown. September 3, 2017. ABC11 Raleigh-Durham. February 1, 2021. February 6, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210206004242/https://abc11.com/2361523/. live.
  75. Web site: North Carolina governor rescinds state of emergency . . September 19, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170920045052/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article174042341.html#storylink=rss#storylink=rss . September 20, 2017 . dead .
  76. Web site: NC Gov. Cooper: Governor Cooper to Serve As 2019 Appalachian Regional Commission States Co-Chair. governor.nc.gov. January 10, 2019. January 10, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190110184214/https://governor.nc.gov/news/governor-cooper-serve-2019-appalachian-regional-commission-states-co-chair. live.
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  78. Web site: Cooper confident he now has leverage to get more from lawmakers in budget . Travis . Fain . Laura . Leslie . Matthew . Burns. March 6, 2019. WRAL.com. Capitol Broadcasting Company. March 6, 2019. May 23, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190523223511/https://www.wral.com/cooper-confident-he-now-has-leverage-to-get-more-from-lawmakers-in-budget/18238911/. live.
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  81. Web site: Governor Cooper orders closing of all N.C. public schools, bans large gatherings. Emily. Featherston. WECT. March 15, 2020 . March 16, 2020. August 6, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200806183925/https://www.wect.com/2020/03/14/governor-cooper-suspends-all-nc-public-schools/. live.
  82. News: North Carolina requires face masks, continues Phase 2 . 25 June 2020 . wcnc.com . 24 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200624235107/https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/north-carolina-governor-roy-cooper-coronavirus-phase-mask/275-5403927e-871d-4fd8-94c9-6805a2a3a9da . live .
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  90. Web site: NC Gov. Cooper: Governor Cooper Signs Veto of House Bill 100. governor.nc.gov. March 16, 2017. March 17, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170317143822/https://governor.nc.gov/news/governor-cooper-signs-veto-house-bill-100. live.
  91. Web site: House votes to override Cooper veto of partisan judicial elections bill . Matthew . Burns . Laura . Leslie . March 22, 2017. WRAL.com. February 1, 2021. February 5, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210205013441/https://www.wral.com/house-votes-to-override-cooper-veto-of-partisan-judicial-elections-bill/16600371/. live.
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  93. Web site: NC Gov. Cooper: Governor Cooper Vetoes House Bill 239 and Senate Bill 68. governor.nc.gov. April 21, 2017. April 22, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170422135028/https://governor.nc.gov/news/governor-cooper-vetoes-house-bill-239-and-senate-bill-68. live.
  94. Web site: NC General Assembly: House Bill 239 / S.L. 2017-7 . Ncleg.net . December 30, 2018 . November 7, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107060755/http://ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=h239&submitButton=Go . live .
  95. Web site: Lawmakers override Cooper again; combine elections, ethics oversight . Matthew . Burns . April 25, 2017. WRAL.com. February 1, 2021. November 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201129111907/https://www.wral.com/lawmakers-override-cooper-again-combine-elections-ethics-oversight/16662860/. live.
  96. Web site: Cooper Vetoes Hog Farm Protection Bill . John . Murawski . Newsobserver.com . May 5, 2017 . December 30, 2018 . November 23, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181123034545/https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article148794769.html . live .
  97. Web site: Cory . Mannion . House overrides Governor Roy Cooper's veto on nuisance lawsuit caps. Senate comes next . Portcitydaily.com . May 11, 2017 . December 30, 2018 . May 22, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180522111518/http://portcitydaily.com/2017/05/11/house-overrides-governor-roy-coopers-veto-on-nuisance-lawsuit-caps-senate-comes-next/latest-news . live .
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  99. Web site: Cooper vetoes budget – and hints at another lawsuit . Colin . Campbell . Newsobserver.com . December 30, 2018 . December 30, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230065542/https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article158409209.html . live .
  100. Web site: Lawmakers override Cooper's budget veto. Gloria. Rodriguez. June 28, 2017. ABC11 Raleigh-Durham. February 1, 2021. February 4, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210204180003/https://abc11.com/2158766/. live.
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  102. News: After fraud probe, new NC primary may replace GOP candidate | Elections . Greensboro News and Record . greensboro.com . December 16, 2018 . December 20, 2018 . August 6, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200806182132/https://greensboro.com/news/government/elections/after-fraud-probe-new-nc-primary-may-replace-gop-candidate/article_f4b256e9-4ef0-55be-8301-79151b4bf20e.html?link_id=44&can_id=0ddacde5f10c0513ec8f12339d77e762 . live .
  103. Web site: North Carolina lawmakers override veto of elections bill . . Max . Greenwood . December 27, 2018 . December 30, 2018 . December 30, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230233440/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/423050-north-carolina-lawmakers-override-veto-of-elections-bill . live .
  104. Web site: Will second half of Cooper's term be more productive than first? . Matthew . Burns . January 2, 2019. WRAL.com. January 2, 2019. January 2, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190102161315/https://www.wral.com/will-second-half-of-cooper-s-term-be-more-productive-than-first-/18097982/. live.
  105. Web site: Fact-checking claims about abortion and 'born alive' bill . Louis . Jacobson . Paul . Specht . PolitiFact North Carolina. en. May 15, 2019. May 15, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190515012016/https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/article/2019/apr/19/fact-checking-claims-about-abortion-and-born-alive/. live.
  106. Web site: Cooper . Roy . Governor Roy Cooper Objections and Veto Message . State of North Carolina . May 15, 2019 . April 18, 2019 . ... unnecessary interference between doctors and their patients. . June 6, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190606063557/https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2019/3682/0/S359-BD-NBC-5748 . live .
  107. Web site: North Carolina governor vetoes 'born alive' abortion bill. Jason . Hanna. CNN. April 18, 2019. May 15, 2019. May 15, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190515012013/https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/us/north-carolina-abortion-born-alive-bill/index.html. live.
  108. Web site: My dad Capt. Sam Bernhardt with the 7th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Cu Chi, Vietnam, '66-'67. When he was drafted, he closed his medical practice & left his wife & 4 young children to serve his country. Thanks to every veteran for your service & sacrifice. -KC #VeteransDay. Kristin Cooper. Twitter. November 13, 2017. November 15, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171115121926/https://mobile.twitter.com/FLONC/status/929377800951345152. live.
  109. Web site: Service project aids foster kids. Davis. Corey. August 7, 2018. Rocky Mount Telegram. August 17, 2018. August 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180817225540/http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/News/2018/08/07/Service-project-seeks-to-aid-foster-children.html. dead.
  110. Web site: N.C. First Lady Kristin Cooper will be 2017 commencement speaker. February 23, 2017 . Saint Mary's School. August 17, 2018. August 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180817225924/https://www.sms.edu/about-us/school-news/~post/nc-first-lady-kristin-cooper-will-be-2017-commencement-speaker-20170223. live.
  111. Web site: Franklin grads, NC first lady reconnect. Colvard. Bill. June 9, 2018. The Mt. Airy News. August 17, 2018. August 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180817231504/https://www.mtairynews.com/news/62467/franklin-grads-nc-first-lady-reconnect. live.
  112. Web site: A Democratic Governor's Rural Strategy: Highways for Trump Counties. Tom. Bennett. October 26, 2019. Daily Yonder. June 16, 2020. June 16, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200616202546/https://dailyyonder.com/a-democratic-governors-rural-strategy-highways-for-trump-counties/2019/10/26/. live.
  113. News: Gov. Cooper a homegrown Canes fan. Luke . DeCock . Winston-Salem Journal. July 29, 2020. July 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200729083202/https://journalnow.com/z-no-digital/gov-cooper-a-homegrown-canes-fan/article_e3509ae0-4b17-5755-86f4-80d72dd3f543.html. live.
  114. Web site: Cooper . Roy . December 5, 2022 . I'm the Governor of North Carolina. This Fringe Claim Before the Supreme Court Would Upend Democracy. . April 16, 2024 . The New York Times.

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