Robert Pittenger

Robert Pittenger (2013)

Robert Pittenger (* 15. August 1948 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2013 to 2019 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives and resigned from Congress after his defeat in the party primary.

Career

Robert Pittenger studied at the University of Texas until 1970 . He then worked for the religious missionary organization Campus Crusade for Christ International until 1985 . In 1985 he moved to Charlotte , North Carolina, where he worked in the real estate industry.

Between 2003 and 2008, Pittenger served in the North Carolina Senate . In 2008 he unsuccessfully applied for the post of lieutenant governor of his state.

In the 2012 election , Pittenger was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth congressional electoral district of North Carolina , where he succeeded the no longer-running Sue Wilkins Myrick on January 3, 2013 . In the election he prevailed with just under 52 percent of the vote against Jennifer Roberts from the Democratic Party . He was re-elected in 2014 and 2016 after he had beaten former Pastor Mark Harris by just 134 votes in the Republican area code in 2016 - after redesigning the constituencies in a changed area . In the primary election in May 2018, he was the first holder of the election year to lose 46 to 48.5 percent of the vote to Harris, who ran as a Republican candidate for the state's 9th Congressional constituency in November 2018 . Pittenger's mandate ended on January 3, 2019. After Harris had narrowly won the main election in 2018, allegations of election fraud against members of his campaign were loud, which is why the result was not certified and the election including the area code had to be repeated. Both Pittenger and Harris decided not to run again. In the September 2019 by-election , Republican Dan Bishop was elected.

Web links

• Robert Pittenger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Simone Pathé: North Carolina's Robert Pittenger Is First Incumbent to Lose in 2018. In: Roll Call , May 8, 2018.
2. ^ New election ordered in North Carolina House district after possible illegal activities , Feb.21 , 2019, NBC News
3. ↑ The Latest: Pittenger doesn't plan to run again for old seat ( Memento from February 28, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Dan Bishop, Republicans Win North Carolina By-Election , Sept. 11, 2019, Die Zeit