Roy Cooper

Roy Asberry Cooper III (born June 13, 1957) is a former member of the North Carolina State Senate, and is the current North Carolina Attorney General. His most well known case was the Duke lacrosse case in 2007. He is a member of the North Carolina Democratic Party, and is running for Governor of North Carolina in the 2016 election against incumbent Pat McCrory.

Personal life and education

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, serving as the president of the university's Young Democrats, and then also earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from UNC.

Cooper has a wife, Kristin, and three daughters, Hilary, Natalie, and Claire.

State Legislature

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 and Nashville, North Carolina.

Roy Cooper (West Virginia politician)

Roy Gale Cooper (born March 5, 1945) is an American politician and a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 28 since January 12, 2013.

Education

Cooper earned his AS in Business management from Tidewater Community College and his BS in education from Concord College (now Concord University).

Elections

Roy Cooper (rodeo cowboy)

Roy Cooper (born November 13, 1955) is an American former rodeo cowboy who has competed in Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) events since 1976. He won the All-Around Cowboy championship in 1983 and claimed seven individual discipline championships, including six tie-down roping titles. Cooper won the PRCA's Rookie of the Year award in 1976, and was nicknamed "Super Looper" for his roping ability. The ProRodeo Hall of Fame inducted Cooper in 1979.

Early life

Cooper was born in Hobbs, New Mexico, and raised on a ranch. He suffered from asthma in his youth, and hair from horses caused him allergies. However, he began to practice roping when he was three to five years old, depending on the source. Cooper stopped being affected by asthma prior to attending high school, and he competed in American Junior Rodeo Association events, winning an award as "outstanding individual in 25 years" in 1977. Two years earlier, he had won the calf roping title of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association; his father, Tuffy, won the organization's title in the discipline in 1950. He went to Southeastern Oklahoma State University and was a journalism major.

Roy Cooper (disambiguation)

Roy Cooper is a North Carolina Democrat politician.

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