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James E. Holshouser, Jr.

James Holshouser
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68th Governor of North Carolina
In office
January 5, 1973 – January 8, 1977
Lieutenant Jim Hunt
Preceded by Robert Scott
Succeeded by Jim Hunt
Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
In office
1963–1973
Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party
In office
1966–1972
Personal details
Born James Eubert Holshouser, Jr.
(1934-10-08)October 8, 1934
Boone, North Carolina
Died June 17, 2013(2013-06-17) (aged 78)
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Patricia Ann Hollingsworth
Alma mater Davidson College
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Religion Presbyterianism

James Eubert Holshouser, Jr. (October 8, 1934 – June 17, 2013) was the 68th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1973 to 1977. He was the first Republican candidate to be elected as governor since 1896, when Republican Daniel L. Russell was elected as a Fusionist candidate. Holshouser's election reflected the new political realignment of the South.

Holshouser was born in Boone, North Carolina in 1934 and was the son of James E. "Peck" Holshouser, who was United States Attorney in the middle district of North Carolina under President Dwight Eisenhower.

In 1962, two years after graduating from the University of North Carolina School of Law, Holshouser was elected to the first of several terms representing Watauga County in the North Carolina House of Representatives, eventually becoming minority leader. North Carolina had been virtually a one-party, Democratic-dominated state since disfranchisement of blacks in 1899; Holshouser came from one of the few areas of the state where the GOP even existed. During the 1960s and 1970s, however, a number of Southern whites began shifting their support to the Republicans.

He chaired the state Republican Party from 1966 through 1972, following passage of federal civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965 that ended segregation and authorized federal oversight and enforcement of suffrage for African Americans.


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