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Roy A. Cooper, III (born 1957 ) is the current North Carolina Attorney General . Born in Nash County, North Carolina , Cooper was raised in a rural community and worked in Tobacco fields during the summer as a teenager. He received the Morehead Scholarship at the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill , and there earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. After practicing law with his family's law firm for a number of years, Cooper was elected to the North Carolina House Of Representatives in 1986 and named to the North Carolina Senate in 1991 . In 1997 , he was elected Democratic Majority Leader of the state Senate. He continued to practice law as the managing partner of the law firm Fields & Cooper in Rocky Mount, North Carolina . Cooper was elected North Carolina Attorney General in November 2000 and took office on January 6 , 2001 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 2004 . Cooper is mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for North Carolina governor or attorney general in 2008 (he has not decided); the current governor, Mike Easley , also succeeded to the post of governor after serving as state attorney general. EXTERNAL LINK |
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