Bev Perdue

Beverly Marlene MooreTeague Beckwith, Ryan; Jones, Denise (2007-03-26). [http://projects.newsobserver.com/dome/profiles/beverly_perdue Beverly Perdue.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029073326/http://projects.newsobserver.com/dome/profiles/beverly_perdue |date=October 29, 2008 }} The News & Observer. Retrieved on 2008-11-05. was born in 1947 in Grundy, Virginia, the daughter of Alfred P. and Irene Morefield Moore. Her father was a coal miner and co-founder of a coal mining company, who went on to become CEO of a large utility company.{{cite news

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}} She earned a B.A. degree in history in 1969 from the University of Kentucky, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, as well as a M.Ed. degree in community college administration in 1974 and a Ph.D., degree in Education Administration in 1976, both from the University of Florida.[http://projects.newsobserver.com/dome/profiles/beverly_perdue Beverly Perdue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029073326/http://projects.newsobserver.com/dome/profiles/beverly_perdue |date=October 29, 2008 }}. News & Observer. March 3, 2007. Retrieved June 27, 2011.

Perdue, a Democrat, served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1987 to 1991, and in the North Carolina Senate from 1991 to 2001. She represented Craven, Lenoir and Pamlico counties in the House and Craven, Carteret and Pamlico in the Senate.Lori Ann Harris and Marianne M. Kersey, Article II: A Guide to the 1987-1988 N. C. Legislature, N. C. Center for Public Policy Research, Theo Davis & Sons, Zebulon, NC, 1988, p. 168; Kim Kebshull, Article II: A Guide to the 1991-1992 N. C. Legislature, N. C. Center for Public Policy Research, Theo Davis & Sons, Zebulon, NC, 1991, p. 47.

In 1990, she ran for the State Senate in North Carolina's 3rd Senate District, vacated by retiring State Senator Bill Barker (D-Pamlico County).{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vuMbAAAAIBAJ&pg=5439,2902634&dq=beverly+perdue&hl=en |title=Surprises Are Few As Hundreds File For Legislative Seats |newspaper=The Dispatch |date=February 6, 1990 |access-date=2013-06-18}} In 1996, she won re-election against Republican Holt Faircloth, Carteret County Commissioner, 60%-40%.{{Cite FTP |url=ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/data/ElectResults/1996_11_05/19961105_results_NC_Senate.pdf |title=North Carolina Senate General Election |date=November 5, 1996 |server=NC State Bureau of Elections |url-status=dead |access-date=2013-06-18 }}{{cite web|author=Book, Sue |url=http://www.newbernsj.com/news/seat-7577-senate-preston.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905134712/http://www.newbernsj.com/news/seat-7577-senate-preston.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-05 |title=Potential candidates begin eyeing Thomas' Senate seat |publisher=New Bern Sun Journal |date=2006-01-11 |access-date=2012-05-20 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.carteretcountygov.org/Faircloth.aspx |title=William Holt Faircloth, Jr |publisher=Carteretcountygov.org |access-date=2012-05-20}} In 1998, she won re-election against Republican George Hipps 60%-40%.{{Cite FTP |url=ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/data/ElectResults/1998_11_03/19981103_results_NC_Senate_03.pdf |title=North Carolina Senate General Election |date=November 24, 1998 |server=NC State Bureau of Elections |url-status=dead |access-date=2013-06-18 }}

During her last three terms in the Senate, she served as co-chair of the Appropriations Committeehttp://www.iop.harvard.edu/beverly-perdue Perdue and was the first woman to hold this position.http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2012/12/perdue-leaves-a-long-legacy Legacy While she was in office, the General Assembly increased teacher pay and passed Governor Hunt's Excellent Schools Act and Smart Start. Additionally, she led the debate that created North Carolina's Clean Water Management Trust Fund. She fought for more benefits for senior citizens.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MaNOAAAAIBAJ&pg=6222,3772052&dq=beverly+perdue&hl=en |title=Give back the cash; retirees tell N.C. |newspaper=Star-News |date=December 9, 1994 |access-date=2013-06-18}}

She served in the House Judiciary Committee.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jDVVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6928,2210168&dq=beverly+perdue&hl=en |title=Committee continues debate on amendment for governor's veto |publisher=The Robesonian |date=July 14, 1989 |access-date=2013-06-18}} She was Chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=GB&p_theme=gb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF84C26BBC4465&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=New Education Reforms On Hold |newspaper=News & Record |date=February 7, 1993 |access-date=2012-05-20}}

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In 2000, she defeated Republican Betsy Cochrane for the lieutenant governor's seat, becoming North Carolina's first female lieutenant governor; she was re-elected in 2004. As lieutenant governor, Perdue's most significant act was casting the tie-breaking vote that established the North Carolina Education Lottery.

{{Main|2008 North Carolina gubernatorial election}}

Perdue announced her 2008 candidacy for governor on October 1, 2007, at her hometown, New Bern, North Carolina. On October 22, 2007, pro-choice Emily's List endorsed her campaign.[http://www.bevperdue.com/release_details.asp?id=948 Perdue campaign press release] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008200850/http://www.bevperdue.com/release_details.asp?id=948 |date=October 8, 2008 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.emilyslist.org/candidates/bev_perdue/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509070411/http://www.emilyslist.org/candidates/bev_perdue/|url-status=dead|title=Emily's List|archivedate=May 9, 2008}}

On May 6, 2008, Perdue won the Democratic nomination for governor, defeating State Treasurer Richard H. Moore and Dennis Nielsen.{{cite web|url=http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/3985/en/md.html?cid=108 |title=State Board of Elections |publisher=Results.enr.clarityelections.com |access-date=2012-05-20}}

Perdue raised $15 million for the general election and ran ads against her Republican opponent, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, criticizing him for not being tough enough on illegal immigration.{{cite news |first=James |last=Romoser |title=Perdue, in a first, edges McCrory |url=http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/05/050227/perdue-in-a-first-edges-mccrory/news-ncpolitics/ |work=Winston-Salem Journal |date=2008-11-05 |access-date=2008-11-25}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}

Her 2008 gubernatorial campaign was under both state and federal investigation for donation irregularities and was fined $30,000 in 2010.{{cite news |last=Robertson |first=Gary D. |url=http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100825/ARTICLES/100829801/: |title=N.C. Governor Perdue's campaign fined on flight reporting errors |publisher=StarNews |date=August 25, 2010 |access-date=2013-06-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927110511/http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100825/ARTICLES/100829801/%3A |archive-date=September 27, 2012 |df=mdy }} Despite a national Democratic tide and Perdue's fundraising edge,{{cite news|first=Mark |last=Johnson |author2=Benjamin Niolet |title=Race for Governor Remains Close |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1278609.html |work=The News & Observer |date=2008-11-02 |access-date=2008-11-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104115742/http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1278609.html |archive-date=2009-01-04 }} in the general election campaign McCrory led Perdue at first; Perdue slowly gained as the Democratic candidate.{{cite magazine

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}} Perdue and McCrory remained close, with the two often polling in a statistical tie in what was the closest race for governor in the nation. Perdue ran slightly behind her opponent in polls released the week before the election. Pundits speculated that Perdue was hurt by current Democratic Governor Mike Easley's decreasing popularity and McCrory's efforts to tag her as part of the Political corruption in Raleigh: consultants mentioned Perdue's "difficulty of being the candidate of continuity in a change election."

While McCrory received the endorsement of most major newspapers in the state (which typically endorse Democrats),{{cite news

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}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Perdue received the endorsement of actor and director Andy Griffith, who filmed a campaign ad on her behalf.{{cite news |url=http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdues_mayberry_miracle |title=Perdue's Mayberry Miracle |newspaper=News & Observer |date=2008-04-23 |access-date=2012-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720134001/http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdues_mayberry_miracle |archive-date=July 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

Perdue defeated McCrory on November 4, 2008, 50.3% to 46.9%.{{cite news |title=Democrat Perdue becomes NC's 1st female governor |author=Robertson, Gary |date=2008-11-04 |access-date=2008-11-04 |agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/3886614/}}

In late 2010, Perdue's 2008 campaign came under State and Federal investigation for the late reporting of 41 private flights.{{cite web | url = https://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/8682777/ |title = Federal investigation still looms for Perdue | work = WRAL | date = November 24, 2010 | access-date=2014-02-01}} The campaign was fined $30,000 in August 2010 by the State Board of Elections for the late reporting of flights which were discovered after a 2009 self-audit, but that body declined to investigate further after deciding that the Perdue Campaign did not intentionally violate the law.

Perdue was sworn in as the 73rd Governor of North Carolina on January 10, 2009.{{cite news| last1 = Bonner| first1 = Lynn| last2 = Niolet| first2 = Benjamin| title = Council of State also sworn in today: These four among those who will help the new governor steer the ship of state| newspaper = The News & Observer| date = January 10, 2009}}

;Political positions

Perdue's Senate record followed the lines of the Democratic caucus. As a member of the Board of Community Colleges, she voted against allowing illegal immigrants to attend the schools even if they graduated from a North Carolina high school. She had previously said she would admit every high school graduate to community college tuition-free. In late February and early March 2009, she announced that $93 million from the educational lottery would be used to ensure there is money available for the state's day-to-day operations.{{cite news |last=Shea |first=James |date=April 14, 2009 |title=Perdue getting backlash from use of lottery funds |url=http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20090414/news/904139955?p=all&tc=pgall |work=Times-News |location=Hendersonville, North Carolina |access-date=2016-04-01}}

In her first use of the veto power, Gov. Perdue vetoed a bill that would have made various documents that lawmakers use in drafting legislation confidential.{{cite news |title=Perdue veto kills confidentiality bill |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1684112.html |newspaper=News & Observer}}{{cbignore}}

She also vetoed a bill that would have required voters to show photo ID before casting their ballots.

She vetoed a bill that would have allowed fracking in North Carolina. The veto was overridden in July 2012.Seaton, Jake (July 2, 2012), [http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/jul/02/6/nc-senate-votes-override-veto-fracking-bill-ar-2402058/ NC lawmakers override Perdue's veto of fracking bill]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} WNCN News

Perdue signed Susie's Law in 2010, which authorizes up to ten months in jail for convicted perpetrators of cruelty to animals.{{cite web|url=http://myfox8.com/2014/06/24/susie-abused-dog-that-inspired-nc-law-nominated-for-award/|title=Susie, abused dog that inspired NC law, nominated for award|date=June 24, 2014|publisher=myfox8.com|access-date=2014-08-10}}

;Remarks about suspending Congressional elections

On September 27, 2011, Perdue introduced the idea of suspending the Congressional elections. She told the Cary Rotary Club, "You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It's a little bit more contentious now but it's not impossible to try to do what's right in this state. You want people who don't worry about the next election." Her press secretary later claimed that the statement was intended as a joke.{{cite news |url=http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_suggests_suspending_congressional_elections_for_two_years_was_she_serious |title=Perdue jokes about suspending Congressional elections for two years |newspaper=News & Observer |date=2011-09-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928094725/http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_suggests_suspending_congressional_elections_for_two_years_was_she_serious |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |df=mdy }} Audio of the speech was subsequently released.{{cite news |url=http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/was_perdue_joking_you_decide_listen_here |title=Was Perdue joking? You decide. Listen here. |newspaper=News & Observer |date=2011-09-28 |access-date=2012-05-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101225408/http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/was_perdue_joking_you_decide_listen_here |archive-date=January 1, 2012 |df=mdy }}

;Hurricane Irene

Governor Perdue oversaw the state's preparation and response to Hurricane Irene in 2011{{cite web |url=https://abc11.com/archive/8332779/ |title=Perdue requests more federal aid after Hurricane Irene |work=ABC News |date=2011-08-29 |access-date=2012-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025223917/http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8332779 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |url-status=live }} It was seen by some political observers as a defining moment of her tenure.{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62155.html |title=Hurricane Irene in North Carolina a big moment for Bev Perdue |first= David |last=Catanese |publisher=Politico |access-date=2012-05-20}}

;Eugenics compensation

Gov. Perdue issued the following statement regarding the final recommendations approved by the Governor's Task Force on Eugenics Compensation:

"Thank you to the devoted members of this task force for months of diligent, careful and thoughtful work to address one of the most difficult and emotionally wrenching issues in our state's history.

While no amount of money will ever make up for the fact that government officials deprived North Carolinians, mostly women, of the possibility of having children—and officials did so, in most cases, without the victims' consent or against their will—we must do something. I support the task force's compensation proposal. I also agree that we should establish a permanent exhibit so that this shameful period is never forgotten. I look forward to reviewing the details of the task force's recommendations."{{cite press release |url=http://www.governor.state.nc.us/NewsItems/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?newsItemID=2205 |title=Gov. Perdue's Statement on Eugenics Task Force Recommendations |website=Office of Governor Bev Perdue |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918175154/http://www.governor.state.nc.us/NewsItems/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?newsItemid=2205 |archive-date=2012-09-18 |access-date=2012-11-01}}

North Carolina's Republican controlled Senate removed such compensation for sterilization victims from the state's budget that the General Assembly passed after overriding the Governor's veto.{{cite news|last=Price |first=Mark |url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/06/21/3336138/eugenics-victims-vow-to-keep-fighting.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119013430/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/06/21/3336138/eugenics-victims-vow-to-keep-fighting.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-19 |title=Eugenics victims vow to keep fighting for compensation after N.C. Senate nixes budget item |newspaper=Charlotte Observer |date=2012-06-22 |access-date=2013-06-18 }}

;Funding education

Gov. Bev Perdue called on the General Assembly to temporarily restore a fraction of a penny to the state sales tax to reverse deep and unnecessary cuts to education.{{cite web |url=http://www.ncdp.org/blog/entry/governor-perdues-message-to-you |title=Governor Perdue's Video Message: A Fraction of a Penny for Progress |publisher=North Carolina Democratic Party |date=2012-01-20 |access-date=2013-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229022758/http://www.ncdp.org/blog/entry/governor-perdues-message-to-you/ |archive-date=February 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

;Pre-K expansion

North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue issued Executive Order No. 128 authorizing the expansion of the NC Pre-K program to serve up to 6,300 additional children by January 1, 2013. An estimated 1,000 of those children can begin to be served immediately in Pre-K classrooms across the state.

"Through good economic times and bad, North Carolina's enduring commitment has been to educate our children. Now more than ever, as we sit poised for an economic recovery, any delay in preparing our kids to be tomorrow's workforce is simply unacceptable," Gov. Perdue said. "After the General Assembly cut early education programs by 20 percent, thousands of our youngest students were cut out of the Pre-K classroom. Today we can welcome many of them in."{{cite press release |url=http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p16062coll5/id/19904 |title=Gov. Perdue Funds Pre-K Expansion to Cover Up to 6,300 Additional Children |date=2012-10-18 |website=Office of the Governor |access-date=2012-11-01 |via=North Carolina Digital Collections}}

;Wilmington 10

Governor Perdue granted full pardons of innocence to the Wilmington 10 on December 31, 2012. "These convictions were tainted by naked racism and represent an ugly stain on North Carolina's criminal justice system that cannot be allowed to stand any longer," said Gov. Beverly Perdue. "Justice demands that this stain finally be removed." Perdue said that among the key evidence that led her to grant pardons of innocence were recently discovered notes from the prosecutor who picked the jury. The notes showed the prosecutor preferred white jurors who might be members of the Ku Klux Klan and one black juror was described as an "Uncle Tom type." Perdue also pointed to the federal court's ruling that the prosecutor knew his star witness lied on the witness stand. That witness and other witnesses recanted a few years after the trial.{{cite web|last=Almasy |first=Steve |url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/31/justice/north-carolina-wilmington-10/index.html |title=North Carolina governor pardons 'Wilmington 10' |publisher=CNN |date=January 1, 2013 |access-date=2013-06-18}}

She is an Episcopalian. Before entering public service, Perdue worked as a public school teacher, as director of geriatric services at a community hospital in her hometown of New Bern, and earned a Ph.D. in Education Administration.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121001000000*/http://www.governor.state.nc.us/library/pdf/OnePageBio.pdf Biography]; North Carolina Governor profile

Perdue lives in New Bern. She has been married to Robert Wendell Eaves, Jr. since 1997 and has two grown sons, Garrett (b. 1976) and Emmett (b. 1979), from her previous marriage to Gary Perdue, which lasted from 1970 to 1994. She continues to use "Perdue" as her last name, using her current married name as her middle name.

In Spring 2013, she served as a Resident Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.harvard.edu/beverly-perdue |title=Beverly Perdue |publisher=The Institute of Politics at Harvard University |date=Spring 2013 |access-date=2013-06-18}} Following her Harvard fellowship, she started an education consulting business.{{cite news|url=http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_sets_post_governor_plans_mum_on_raleigh_gop |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130617221448/http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_sets_post_governor_plans_mum_on_raleigh_gop |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 17, 2013 |title=Under the Dome: Perdue sets post-governor plans, mum on Raleigh GOP |newspaper=News & Observer |date=June 17, 2013 |access-date=2013-06-18 }}

In August 2013, Perdue became a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, where she worked with faculty and students and also served as an adviser for Duke's Center for Child and Family Policy.{{Cite web |url=http://www.heraldsun.com/news/x2042203319/Visiting-fellow-former-N-C-Gov-Bev-Perdue-tours-Duke-campus |title = Visiting fellow, former N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue tours Duke campus | the … |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130829102538/http://www.heraldsun.com/news/x2042203319/Visiting-fellow-former-N-C-Gov-Bev-Perdue-tours-Duke-campus |archive-date=29 August 2013 |url-status=dead}}

Perdue was named to the Governing Board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2017 and re-appointed in 2021. She became the board's first female chair in 2018 and was re-elected to the chair for a second time in 2021.[https://apnews.com/article/miguel-cardona-north-carolina-education-3df05e5175370406f61ec9af492ba6e1 Associated Press: Former NC Gov. Perdue back leading national testing board]

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|party = Democratic Party (US)

|candidate = Ronnie Ansley

|votes = 55,622

|percentage = 10.8%

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Party (US)

|candidate = Joel Harbinson

|votes = 25,179

|percentage = 4.9%

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Democratic Party (US)

|candidate = Beverly Perdue

|votes = 24,767

|percentage = 60.1%

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Republican Party (US)

|candidate = David G. Hipps

|votes = 16,414

|percentage = 39.9%

|change =

}}

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All data is from the State Board of Elections.

• List of female governors in the United States
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{{Commons category|Beverly Perdue}}

• [https://ncdp.org/ North Carolina Democratic Party]
• [http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/722630.html News & Observer: Perdue announces bid for governor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006035544/http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/722630.html |date=October 6, 2008 }} Mark Johnson, The News & Observer, October 1, 2007
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011100125/http://projects.newsobserver.com/documents/perdues_resumes News & Observer: Perdue's Resumes], The News & Observer, October 9, 2007
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120211231341/http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdues_inaugural_address News & Observer: Perdue's inaugural address], The News & Observer, January 10, 2009
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