North Carolina's 6th congressional district

North Carolina's 6th congressional district
	North Carolina's 6th congressional district since January 3, 2017
	Mark Walker; R–Greensboro
Distribution	52.76% urban; 47.24% rural;
Population (2016)	763,491
Median income	$49,867
Ethnicity	71.41% White; 20.14% Black; 1.52% Asian; 9.95% Hispanic; 0.39% Native American;
Cook PVI	R+9

North Carolina's 6th congressional district is located in north central portion of the state and borders Virginia. As a result of reapportionment following the 2010 census, the district was shifted northward by the Redistricting Committee of the NC Senate. The 6th district included from then until 2015 portions of Guilford, Alamance, Durham, Granville, and Orange counties, and all of Caswell, Person, Rockingham, Surry, and Stokes counties.

The district is represented by Mark Walker, a Republican. He has held this position since 2015.

Counties coveredEdit

The entirety of:

Portions of

Guilford County

HistoryEdit

From 2003 to 2013 the 6th District comprised all of Moore and Randolph counties and portions of Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, and Rowan counties.

List of members representing the districtEdit

Member	Party	Years	Electoral history
District created March 4, 1793
James Gillespie	Anti-Administration	March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795	Elected in 1793. Re-elected in 1795. Re-elected in 1796. Lost re-election.
James Gillespie	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1799
William H. Hill	Federalist	March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1803	Elected in 1798. Re-elected in 1800. [Data unknown/missing.]
Nathaniel Macon	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1803 – December 13, 1815	Redistricted from the 5th district and re-elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Re-elected in 1810. Re-elected in 1813. Re-elected in 1815. Resigned when elected U.S. Senator.
Vacant		December 13, 1815 – February 7, 1816
Weldon N. Edwards	Democratic-Republican	February 7, 1816 – March 3, 1823	Elected January 22, 1816 to finish Macon's term and seated February 7, 1816. Re-elected in 1817. Re-elected in 1819. Re-elected in 1821. Re-elected in 1823. Re-elected in 1825. Retired.
	Crawford Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
	Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827
Daniel Turner	Jacksonian	March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829	Elected in 1827. Retired.
Robert Potter	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – November 1831	Elected in 1829. Resigned.
Vacant		November 1831 – December 15, 1831
Micajah T. Hawkins	Jacksonian	December 15, 1831 – March 3, 1837	[Data unknown/missing.]
Micajah T. Hawkins	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841	[Data unknown/missing.]
Archibald H. Arrington	Democratic	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	[Data unknown/missing.] Redistricted to the 8th district.
James I. McKay	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847	Redistricted from the 5th district. Redistricted to the 7th district.
John R. J. Daniel	Democratic	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853	Redistricted from the 7th district. [Data unknown/missing.]
Richard C. Puryear	Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	[Data unknown/missing.]
Richard C. Puryear	Know Nothing	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	[Data unknown/missing.]
Alfred M. Scales	Democratic	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859	[Data unknown/missing.]
James M. Leach	Opposition	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861	[Data unknown/missing.]
Civil War and Reconstruction
Nathaniel Boyden	Conservative	July 13, 1868 – March 3, 1869	[Data unknown/missing.]
Francis E. Shober	Democratic	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873	[Data unknown/missing.]
Thomas S. Ashe	Democratic	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1877	[Data unknown/missing.]
Walter L. Steele	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881	[Data unknown/missing.]
Clement Dowd	Democratic	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1885	[Data unknown/missing.]
Risden T. Bennett	Democratic	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	Redistricted from the At-large district
Alfred Rowland	Democratic	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891	[Data unknown/missing.]
Sydenham B. Alexander	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895	[Data unknown/missing.]
James A. Lockhart	Democratic	March 4, 1895 – June 5, 1896	Lost contested election.
Charles H. Martin	Populist	June 5, 1896 – March 3, 1899	Won contested election.
John D. Bellamy	Democratic	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1903	[Data unknown/missing.]
Gilbert B. Patterson	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907	[Data unknown/missing.]
Hannibal L. Godwin	Democratic	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1921	[Data unknown/missing.]
Homer L. Lyon	Democratic	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1929	[Data unknown/missing.]
J. Bayard Clark	Democratic	March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933	[Data unknown/missing.] Redistricted to the 7th district.
William B. Umstead	Democratic	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939	[Data unknown/missing.]
Carl T. Durham	Democratic	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1961	[Data unknown/missing.]
Horace R. Kornegay	Democratic	January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1969	[Data unknown/missing.]
L. Richardson Preyer	Democratic	January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1981	[Data unknown/missing.]
Walter E. Johnston, III	Republican	January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983	[Data unknown/missing.]
Robin Britt	Democratic	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985	[Data unknown/missing.]
Howard Coble	Republican	January 3, 1985 – January 3, 2015	[Data unknown/missing.]
Mark Walker	Republican	January 3, 2015 – Present	[Data unknown/missing.]

Historical district boundariesEdit

2003 - 2013

2013–2017

ReferencesEdit

^ https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cd_state.html
^ https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=37&cd=06
^ https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=37&cd=06
^ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

Coordinates: 36°18′36″N 79°40′54″W / 36.31000°N 79.68167°W / 36.31000; -79.68167

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[Cook-4] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

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