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Josh Stein

Joshua Harold Stein (born September 13, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician who is the governor-elect of North Carolina. He has been serving as the 51st attorney general of North Carolina since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Stein previously served in the North Carolina Senate from 2009 to 2016.

Born in Washington, D.C., Stein moved to North Carolina with his family at an early age. He studied at Dartmouth College and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School before being elected to represent North Carolina's 16th Senate district in 2008. Stein left the state Senate upon winning the Democratic nomination in the 2016 North Carolina Attorney General election and defeated Republican state senator Buck Newton by 0.54%, making him the first Jewish person to win a statewide election in North Carolina. He was re-elected in 2020 after narrowly defeating Republican Forsyth County district attorney Jim O'Neill by a margin of 0.26%.

Stein chose not to seek a third term as state attorney general and instead opted to run for governor in the 2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election. After winning the Democratic nomination, he defeated Republican nominee Mark Robinson in the general election by 14.8%. Provided by Wikipedia