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Former NC state House member Holmes dies
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| Last Edited | RMF Dec 31, 2009 07:26pm |
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| Author | Associated Press |
| News Date | Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Former longtime state Rep. George Holmes, a key budget leader while Republicans controlled the House in the mid-1990s, died Thursday morning, officials said. He was 80.
Holmes died at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Davis said, but she could provide no other information. The House clerk's office said funeral arrangements were incomplete.
Holmes, a former real estate company president from Yadkin County, was first elected to the House in 1974 and became one of just nine Republicans in the 120-member chamber - the result of GOP defeats in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
Holmes lost two years later, but returned to the chamber in 1978 and didn't leave for 30 more years. He rose through the Republican ranks, serving as the minority whip and minority party joint caucus leader in the early 1980s. |
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