Dale Folwell
| Dale Folwell | |
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| 28th Treasurer of North Carolina | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2017 |
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| Governor | Roy Cooper |
| Preceded by | Janet Cowell |
| Speaker pro tempore of the North Carolina House of Representatives | |
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In office January 2011 – January 2013 |
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| Preceded by | William L. Wainwright |
| Succeeded by | Paul Stam |
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December 17, 1958 Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | University of North Carolina, Greensboro (BS, MAcc) |
| Website | Government website |
Dale Folwell is the current North Carolina State Treasurer, and former Speaker Pro Tempore of the North Carolina House of Representatives. A Republican from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he served four terms in the North Carolina General Assembly.
In 2013, Folwell was named head of the state's Division of Employment Security in the administration of Governor Pat McCrory. He resigned from that position, effective Dec. 1, 2015. That day, he filed to run for State Treasurer in the 2016 election.
Folwell is a North Carolina native born in Raleigh. He attended West Forsyth High School and received his BS in accounting from UNC Greensboro in 1984. He passed the Certified Public Accounting Exam and went on to receive his Masters in Accounting from UNC Greensboro in 1986. He is a former Vice President and Registered Investment Advisor for Deutsche Bank/Alex Brown.
After graduating from the NC Institute of Political Leadership in 1989, he served on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education from 1993 to 2000.
In May 1999, Representative Folwell’s 7-year-old son Dalton died after being hit by a car as he tried to board a school bus. Following the accident, he and his wife allowed their son to be an organ donor. Since then, Representative Folwell has been an advocate and spokesman for organ donation. In 2006, he set out on a month-long motorcycle ride around the United States raising awareness and money for organ and blood donation. He set the record for the most miles driven on a motorcycle in one month on October 1, 2006 with 32,978 miles. In 2007, he sponsored NC House Bill 1372, The Heart Prevails Act. It allows an individual to indicate on their driver’s license that they are an organ donor. The bill also lowered the blood donor age from 17 to 16.
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