Representative
Edgar Starnes
Majority Leader of the North Carolina House of Representatives
In office
January 1, 2013 – January 1, 2015
LeaderThom Tillis
Preceded byPaul Stam
Succeeded byMike Hager
Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
In office
January 1, 1997 – January 13, 2015
Preceded byGeorge Robinson
Succeeded byGeorge Robinson[1]
Constituency91st District (1997-2003)
87th District (2003-2015)
In office
January 1, 1987 – January 1, 1989
Preceded byGeorge Robinson
Succeeded byGeorge Robinson
David Flaherty
Constituency46th District
Personal details
Born
Edgar Vance Starnes

(1956-09-03) September 3, 1956[2]
Granite Falls, North Carolina, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Residence(s)Granite Falls, North Carolina, U.S.
OccupationSelf Employed Real Estate Investor[3]
Edgar Starnes Campaign WebsiteProject Vote Smart Biography

Edgar Vance Starnes is a North Carolina politician and an investor in real estate. He served as a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for a total of approximately 20 years, from 1987–88 and from 1997 through January 2015. He then resigned to become legislative liaison for North Carolina State Treasurer Janet Cowell.[4] At the time of his resignation, Starnes represented the state's eighty-seventh House district (Caldwell County).

North Carolina House of Representatives

He was elected House Majority Leader by his colleagues in December 2012, for the legislative session beginning in January 2013.[5] After the 2014 election, in which he was re-elected to the House without opposition, Starnes chose not to seek a second term as Majority Leader because he was already discussing the position with the State Treasurer's office.[6]

Nullification resolution

In April 2013, Starnes and ten Republican colleagues introduced House Bill 494, a resolution in the Assembly which repudiates any federal court power in ruling on any Constitutional topic in North Carolina, a legally discredited theory known to historians of the antebellum U.S. as nullification.

"The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people," the resolution asserts, continuing, "Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion".[7]

Electoral history

2014

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2014[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 16,148 100%
Total votes 16,148 100%
Republican hold

2012

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district Republican primary election, 2012[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 8,472 70.07%
Republican Jordon Greene 3,619 29.93%
Total votes 12,091 100%
North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2012[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 25,757 100%
Total votes 25,757 100%
Republican hold

2010

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2010[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 14,295 100%
Total votes 14,295 100%
Republican hold

2008

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2008[12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 15,444 52.76%
Democratic John A. Forlines Jr. 11,487 39.24%
Libertarian Timothy J. "T. J." Rohr 2,342 8.00%
Total votes 29,273 100%
Republican hold

2006

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2006[13]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 11,548 100%
Total votes 11,548 100%
Republican hold

2004

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2004[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 15,519 59.84%
Democratic Woody Tucker 10,415 40.16%
Total votes 25,934 100%
Republican hold

2002

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2002[15]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 11,813 51.48%
Democratic Ray Warren 11,132 48.52%
Total votes 22,945 100%
Republican hold

2000

North Carolina House of Representatives 91st district general election, 2000[16]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Edgar Starnes (incumbent) 15,050 85.98%
Libertarian Joe Young 2,454 14.02%
Total votes 17,504 100%
Republican hold

References

  1. ↑ Hickory Daily Record
  2. ↑ Project Vote Smart Biography
  3. ↑ Edgar Starnes Campaign Website Archived 2012-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ WRAL.com
  5. ↑ News & Observer: House GOP chooses leaders Archived 2013-01-30 at archive.today
  6. ↑ Hickory Daily Record Archived 2015-01-18 at archive.today
  7. ↑ Leslie, Laura. "Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina" @NCCapitol, WRAL.com; April 3, 2013
  8. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  9. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  10. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  11. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  12. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  13. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  14. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  15. ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  16. ↑ "NC State House 091". Our Campaigns. Retrieved September 12, 2022.


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