Edgar V. Starnes
Representative Edgar Starnes | |
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Majority Leader of the North Carolina House of Representatives | |
In office January 1, 2013 – January 1, 2015 | |
Leader | Thom Tillis |
Preceded by | Paul Stam |
Succeeded by | Mike Hager |
Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives | |
In office January 1, 1997 – January 13, 2015 | |
Preceded by | George Robinson |
Succeeded by | George Robinson[1] |
Constituency | 91st District (1997-2003) 87th District (2003-2015) |
In office January 1, 1987 – January 1, 1989 | |
Preceded by | George Robinson |
Succeeded by | George Robinson David Flaherty |
Constituency | 46th District |
Personal details | |
Born | Edgar Vance Starnes (1956-09-03) September 3, 1956 (age 67)[2] Granite Falls, North Carolina, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Residence(s) | Granite Falls, North Carolina, U.S. |
Occupation | Self Employed Real Estate Investor[3] |
Edgar Starnes Campaign WebsiteProject Vote Smart Biography | |
Edgar Vance Starnes is a North Carolina politician and an investor in real estate. He served as a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for a total of approximately 20 years, from 1987 to 1988 and from 1997 through January 2015. He then resigned to become legislative liaison for North Carolina State Treasurer Janet Cowell.[4] At the time of his resignation, Starnes represented the state's eighty-seventh House district (Caldwell County).
North Carolina House of Representatives
He was elected House Majority Leader by his colleagues in December 2012, for the legislative session beginning in January 2013.[5] After the 2014 election, in which he was re-elected to the House without opposition, Starnes chose not to seek a second term as Majority Leader because he was already discussing the position with the State Treasurer's office.[6]
Nullification resolution
In April 2013, Starnes and ten Republican colleagues introduced House Bill 494, a resolution in the Assembly which repudiates any federal court power in ruling on any Constitutional topic in North Carolina, a legally discredited theory known to historians of the antebellum U.S. as nullification.
"The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people," the resolution asserts, continuing, "Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion".[7]
Electoral history
2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 16,148 | 100% | |
Total votes | 16,148 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
2012
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 8,472 | 70.07% | |
Republican | Jordon Greene | 3,619 | 29.93% | |
Total votes | 12,091 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 25,757 | 100% | |
Total votes | 25,757 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
2010
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 14,295 | 100% | |
Total votes | 14,295 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
2008
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 15,444 | 52.76% | |
Democratic | John A. Forlines Jr. | 11,487 | 39.24% | |
Libertarian | Timothy J. "T. J." Rohr | 2,342 | 8.00% | |
Total votes | 29,273 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
2006
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 11,548 | 100% | |
Total votes | 11,548 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 15,519 | 59.84% | |
Democratic | Woody Tucker | 10,415 | 40.16% | |
Total votes | 25,934 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
2002
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 11,813 | 51.48% | |
Democratic | Ray Warren | 11,132 | 48.52% | |
Total votes | 22,945 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
2000
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Edgar Starnes (incumbent) | 15,050 | 85.98% | |
Libertarian | Joe Young | 2,454 | 14.02% | |
Total votes | 17,504 | 100% | ||
Republican hold |
References
- ^ Hickory Daily Record
- ^ Project Vote Smart Biography
- ^ Edgar Starnes Campaign Website Archived 2012-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ WRAL.com
- ^ News & Observer: House GOP chooses leaders Archived 2013-01-30 at archive.today
- ^ Hickory Daily Record Archived 2015-01-18 at archive.today
- ^ Leslie, Laura. "Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina" @NCCapitol, WRAL.com; April 3, 2013
- ^ [1] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ [2] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ [3] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ [4] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ [5] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ [6] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ [7] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ [8] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
- ^ "NC State House 091". Our Campaigns. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
External links
- Edgar V. Starnes" (North Carolina General Assembly Official Site)
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Preceded by | Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 46th district 1987–1989 Served alongside: James Frank Hughes, Charles Franklin Buchanan | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 91st district 1997–2003 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 87th district 2003–2015 | Succeeded by |
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