1. Thomas Cowart Goolsby was born on September 11,1961 and is a former Republican North Carolina State Senator representing New Hanover County.
15 Facts About Thom Goolsby
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Thom Goolsby is a former chairman of the New Hanover County Republican Party and an adjunct professor of law at Campbell University.
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Thom Goolsby is the president of Empowered Investor Inc However, the investment adviser registrations of Goolsby, his partner James Upham, and the firm were revoked for at least ten years in 2014.
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At that time Thom Goolsby claimed that the business was closed.
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Thom Goolsby ran for the Republican nomination in the 2004 North Carolina Attorney General election, but lost the nomination to Joe Knott.
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Thom Goolsby won the race for District 9 of the North Carolina State Senate in the November 2,2010 general election.
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In polling prior to the election, Thom Goolsby held a significant lead over Leutze.
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Thom Goolsby was unopposed in the Republican primary on May 8,2012.
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Thom Goolsby faced Democratic nominee Deb Butler in the general election on November 6,2012.
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Thom Goolsby sponsored legislation that repealed the state's Racial Justice Act, which had prohibited the imposition of the death penalty on the basis of race.
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Thom Goolsby chose not to run for re-election in 2014, and he resigned from the legislature in August 2014, before the expiration of his term.
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Thom Goolsby's resignation followed the revocation by the secretary of state of his registration as an investment adviser, and his consent to the order.
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Thom Goolsby served as vice chairman of the Senate Judiciary I committee and chairman of both the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety and the Appropriations Committee on Justice and Public Safety.
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Thom Goolsby chaired interim committees on pharmaceutical liability, retitling of manufactured homes and consolidation of judicial and prosecutorial districts.
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Thom Goolsby was a member of interim committees on government operations, modernization of banking, energy policy and marine fisheries.