Source: WRAL, 1/29/19

A retired businessman will join the North Carolina Senate after Republican activists chose him as a successor to a veteran legislator who resigned this month. The Goldsboro News-Argus reports that Wayne and Lenoir county GOP leaders on Monday picked Jim Perry of Kinston to serve out the rest of ex-Sen. Louis Pate's term through the end of 2020. Pate cited health issues in stepping down Jan. 14. Pate had started his ninth legislative term in January.

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