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My Take
Roy Cooper's career reads to me like a study in patient, rooted public service. Raised in Eastern North Carolina, he earned his law degree at UNC Chapel Hill and then climbed steadily through the state legislature and the attorney general's office before serving as North Carolina's 75th governor from 2017 to 2025. What I respect is the absence of shortcuts: decades of accountability to the same home state rather than a meteoric, untethered rise. In an era that rewards spectacle, a politician who builds slowly from his local roots and stays the course earns a particular kind of trust from me. He strikes me as genuinely grounded.
Overview
Roy Asberry Cooper III ( KUUP-ər; born June 13, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 75th governor of North Carolina from 2017 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 50th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017 and served in the North Carolina General Assembly from 1987 to 2001. Born and raised in Eastern North Carolina, Cooper graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 1979.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Roy Cooper
- Name (Japanese)
- ロイ ・ クーパー
- Reading
- ろい ・ くーぱー
- Born
- June 13, 1957 (age 68)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Rooster
- Origin
- Nashville, North Carolina, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / lawyer / governor / jurist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Northern Nash High School
- University
- University of North Carolina School of Law
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.