Rufus Lige Edmisten was born on July 12,1941 and is an American attorney who served as North Carolina Secretary of State, Attorney General, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1984.
10 Facts About Rufus Edmisten
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Rufus Edmisten earned an undergraduate degree in political science with honors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a JD from the George Washington University Law Center in Washington, DC, where he served on the Law Review.
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Rufus Edmisten was elected state attorney general in 1974 and served in that post for ten years.
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In 1996 Rufus Edmisten resigned from office after an audit of the Secretary of State's office led to a State Bureau of Investigations inquiry into several alleged abuses of office.
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Rufus Edmisten maintained that his resignation had nothing to do with the investigation.
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Rufus Edmisten is a member of the boards of directors of the Julia Crump Foundation and Project Enlightenment, both of which are charitable organizations that seek to enhance educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths.
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Rufus Edmisten served as a board member for the Raleigh region of Union Bank.
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Rufus Edmisten was a panelist on NC Spin, North Carolina's longest running political talk show.
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Rufus Edmisten is a longstanding co-host of the popular radio program Weekend Gardener on WPTF in Raleigh, NC.
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In 2019 Edmisten published a memoir titled, "That's Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life".