Source: Brian Murphy, NEWS & OBSERVER, 2/11/19


Gov. Roy Cooper must set the date for a special election in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District after the death of longtime Rep. Walter Jones, who had represented Eastern North Carolina in the U.S. House since 1995. Jones died Sunday on his 76th birthday. He had been absent from Congress since September while battling an undisclosed illness. He suffered a broken hip earlier this year and entered hospice care last month.

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