Roy Cooper
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About
Rose to fame as the 75th governor of North Carolina. A lifelong Democrat, he previously served as North Carolina's Attorney General from 2001 to 2017. His political fame has led him to accumulate more than 20,000 followers on his roycoopernc Instagram.
Before Fame
He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the president of the Young Democrats. He subsequently earned his Juris Doctor degree from the North Carolina School of Law.
Trivia
He was elected as the Democratic Majority Leader of the North Carolina Senate in 1997. He argued his first case as North Carolina's Attorney General before the US Supreme Court in 2011.
Family Life
He has three daughters with his wife Kristin.
Associated With
He was appointed to a commission to fight opioid addiction in 2017 by then-president Donald Trump.
