Bill Cobey

Bill Cobey

William Wilfred "Bill" Cobey Jr. (born May 13, 1939 in Washington, DC ) is an American politician . Between 1985 and 1987 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bill Cobey attended high school in Hyattsville , Maryland , and then studied at Emory University in Atlanta , Georgia until 1962 . This was followed by studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia until 1964 . Between 1964 and 1965, Cobey worked in administration in the banking industry, then in 1966 he was a seller of chemical products. He then studied health care and sports at the University of Pittsburgh until 1968 . In the following years he worked in this area. Between 1971 and 1976 he was the athletics director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Politically, Cobey joined the Republican Party . In 1980 he ran for lieutenant governor of North Carolina without success . Between 1980 and 1982 he was chairman of the Taxpayers Educational Coalition . In 1982 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . From 1982 to 1984 he was President of Cobey & Associates . In the 1984 congressional election , Cobey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fourth constituency of North Carolina, where he succeeded Ike Franklin Andrews on January 3, 1985 . Since he was not confirmed in 1986, he was only able to serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1987 .

Between 1987 and 1989, Cobey was North Carolina’s Deputy Secretary of Transportation; from 1989 to 1993 he was minister for the environment, health and natural resources of his state. From 1999 to 2003 he was Republican party chairman in North Carolina. In 2004 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial elections . In 2007 and 2008 he led the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee in North Carolina. Bill Cobey is married with two children and four grandchildren. Today he lives in Chapel Hill.

Web links

• Bill Cobey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)