George Holding

George Holding

George EB Holding (born April 17, 1968 in Raleigh , North Carolina ) is an American lawyer and politician . He has represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives since 2013 .

Career

George Holding graduated from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem . After completing a law degree at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1996, he began to practice this profession in a law firm. In 1998, he resigned and served as legal advisor to Senator Jesse Helms . In 2001 and 2002 he was again employed as an attorney in a law firm in Raleigh. He then worked for the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office from 2002 to 2011. Until 2006 he was deputy and then actual federal attorney for the eastern district of the state of North Carolina. Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

In the 2012 congressional elections , Holding was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 13th  constituency of North Carolina with 57 percent of the vote against Democrat Charles Malone , where on January 3, 2013 he succeeded the no longer running Brad Miller stepped up. After being re-elected in 2014, he took up another two-year term as Congressman on January 3, 2015. Since his constituency was disbanded as part of a restructuring before the November 2016 election , he ran in the party primary against the incumbent of the 2nd Congressional constituency of North Carolina, Renee Ellmers . He defeated her and a representative of the tea party movement . In the general election, he met the Democrat John P. McNeil , a lawyer from Raleigh. Holding won the election, which allowed it to take up another two-year term in Congress. He was also re-elected in 2016.

George Holding is married and has four children.

Web links

Commons : George Holding  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence at the congress
• George Holding in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lynn Bonner: George Holding Defeats Renee Ellmers in 2nd District's Incumbent Showdown. In: Raleigh News & Observer , June 7, 2016.