North Carolina's 6th congressional district
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North Carolina's 6th congressional district | ||
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North Carolina's 6th congressional district - since January 3, 2013. | ||
Current Representative | Mark Walker (R–Greensboro) | |
Cook PVI | R+11[1] |
North Carolina's 6th congressional district is located in north central portion of the state and borders Virginia. As a result of reapportionment following the 2010 census, the district was shifted northward by the Redistricting Committee of the NC Senate. The 6th district includes portions of Guilford, Alamance, Durham, Granville, and Orange counties, and all of Caswell, Person, Rockingham, Surry, and Stokes counties.
The district is represented by Mark Walker, a Republican. He has held this position since 2015.
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History
From 2003 to 2013 the 6th District comprised all of Moore and Randolph counties and portions of Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, and Rowan counties.
List of representatives
Representative | Party | Years | District Residence | Note |
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District created March 4, 1793 | ||||
James Gillespie | Anti-Administration | March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795 | ||
Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1799 | |||
William H. Hill | Federalist | March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1803 | ||
Nathaniel Macon | Democratic-Republican | March 4, 1803 - December 13, 1815 | Redistricted from the 5th district, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1801-1807, Resigned after being elected to U.S. Senate | |
Weldon N. Edwards | Democratic-Republican | February 7, 1816 – March 3, 1823 | ||
Crawford D-R | March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 | |||
Jacksonian | March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827 | |||
Daniel Turner | Jacksonian | March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829 | ||
Robert Potter | Jacksonian | March 4, 1829 – November, 1831 | Resigned | |
Micajah T. Hawkins | Jacksonian | December 15, 1831 – March 3, 1837 | ||
Democratic | March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841 | |||
Archibald H. Arrington | Democratic | March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843 | Redistricted to the 8th district | |
James I. McKay | Democratic | March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847 | Redistricted from the 5th district, Redistricted to the 7th district | |
John R. J. Daniel | Democratic | March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853 | Redistricted from the 7th district | |
Richard C. Puryear | Whig | March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 | ||
Know Nothing | March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 | |||
Alfred M. Scales | Democratic | March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859 | ||
James M. Leach | Opposition | March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861 | ||
Civil War and Reconstruction | ||||
Nathaniel Boyden | Conservative | July 13, 1868 – March 3, 1869 | ||
75px Francis E. Shober | Democratic | March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873 | ||
75px Thomas S. Ashe | Democratic | March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1877 | ||
75px Walter L. Steele | Democratic | March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881 | ||
Clement Dowd | Democratic | March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1885 | ||
Risden T. Bennett | Democratic | March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887 | Redistricted from the At-large district | |
Alfred Rowland | Democratic | March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891 | ||
Sydenham B. Alexander | Democratic | March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895 | ||
James A. Lockhart | Democratic | March 4, 1895 – June 5, 1896 | Lost contested election | |
Charles H. Martin | Populist | June 5, 1896 – March 3, 1899 | Won contested election | |
John D. Bellamy | Democratic | March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1903 | ||
Gilbert B. Patterson | Democratic | March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907 | ||
Hannibal L. Godwin | Democratic | March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1921 | ||
Homer L. Lyon | Democratic | March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1929 | ||
J. Bayard Clark | Democratic | March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933 | Redistricted to the 7th district | |
William B. Umstead | Democratic | March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939 | ||
Carl T. Durham | Democratic | January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1961 | ||
Horace R. Kornegay | Democratic | January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1969 | ||
75px L. Richardson Preyer | Democratic | January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1981 | ||
75px Walter E. Johnston, III | Republican | January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983 | ||
75px Robin Britt | Democratic | January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985 | ||
Howard Coble | Republican | January 3, 1985 – January 3, 2015 | ||
Mark Walker | Republican | January 3, 2015 – |
Historical district boundaries
See also
References
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