Pat McCrory

Pat McCrory (July 2012)

Patrick Lloyd "Pat" McCrory (born October 17, 1956 in Columbus , Ohio ) is an American politician . He was governor of the state of North Carolina from January 5, 2013 to January 1, 2017 .

Life

Childhood and youth

Pat McCrory was born in Columbus, Ohio, the youngest of four children of Rollin and Audrey McCrory. His father, an engineer by trade, served at times on the borough council of Worthington , a suburb of Columbus.

McCrory grew up in Ohio until he was nine years old before his family moved to North Carolina in 1965, where he grew up in Jamestown , a suburb of Greensboro . At Jamestown Junior High School, he was elected President of the Student Council in 1972.

Career

After finishing school in 1974, he enrolled at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina one on which he the profession of teacher studied. Although he was approved to teach as a teacher in 1978, he accepted a job with the utility Duke Energy . In the years that followed, he worked his way up there from a worker who ensured the electricity supply on power poles to a senior consultant in the economics and finance department.

Political career

In 1989, McCrory went into politics when he was elected to the Charlotte City Council for the Republican Party . In 1993, he was elected Vice Mayor.

In 1995, McCrory successfully ran for mayor of Charlotte. At that time, already 39 years old, McCrory was the youngest mayor of Charlotte to date when he took office. McCrory was a very popular mayor who, in his six re-elections, was always able to keep his Democratic challenger at a clear distance when it came to the election results. In 1997 he received 78 percent of the vote, Jim Harwood from the Democrats only around 20 percentage points.

McCrory suffered his first electoral defeat in 2008 when he ran for the office of governor of North Carolina for the first time and lost to the Democratic challenger Beverly Perdue with 46.88 percent to 50.27 percent. In 2009 he announced his departure as mayor of Charlotte after 14 years. He also left Duke Energy after around three decades and began working as a management consultant in his brother's company.

In 2012, McCrory ran again for governor of North Carolina. He beat his Democratic challenger Walter H. Dalton with 54.7 percentage points against 43.2 percentage points. McCrory, who took office in early January 2013, has been North Carolina's first Republican governor for 20 years since James G. Martin , who left office in 1993. In 2016, McCrory ran for re-election. But he was just defeated by the Democrat Roy Cooper . This won with a share of 49.02 percent of the vote. MCCrory came in at 48.80%.

Private life

Pat McCrory has been married to his wife Ann since 1988 without children.

Web links

Commons : Pat McCrory  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Pat McCrory in the National Governors Association (English)
• The 2016 election results at Ballotpedia
• Collection of links from Curlie on McCrory