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Barry Templeton
Barry Templeton (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 34. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Templeton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Barry Templeton was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He served in the United States Navy from 1976 to 1982. Templeton pursued his undergraduate education at Appalachian State University, North Carolina State University, and the University of Maryland. His career experience includes working as a network engineer.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for North Carolina State Senate District 34
Incumbent Vickie Sawyer defeated Barry Templeton in the general election for North Carolina State Senate District 34 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Vickie Sawyer (R) | 71.0 | 83,707 |
Barry Templeton (D)  | 29.0 | 34,172 | ||
| Total votes: 117,879 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Barry Templeton advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 34.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Vickie Sawyer advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 34.
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Barry Templeton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Templeton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I was raised in the northern part of Iredell County. Long ago, I attended Union Grove, Monticello, and Ebenezer elementary schools. I went to Harmony for junior high and North Iredell for high school. Growing up in Iredell, I primed tobacco, put up hay, generally worked around farms. Later on I worked in a textile mill (Uniglass Industries) and a chicken processing plant (Veterans Grease and Tallow). I left Iredell to attend college. After that I joined the US Navy. In the Navy, I completed Nuclear Propulsion training and went on to serve on submarines. Along the way, I married an Iredell County girl and had two daughters. A blended family has made me a proud grandpa of several grandkids.
After the Navy, I worked in nuclear power plants. I was primarily in the Health Physics field which concerns itself with radiation and chemical safety. As computers came into wider use I gradually migrated from Health Physics to Information Technology. I retired from Duke Power a couple of years ago as a Senior Network Engineer.
- Where and how you end up in life should not be determined by how you are born into it.
- Schools should be the same for everyone, and taxpayer money should not fund voucher programs.
- What you do in the bedroom is your business. It is definitely not the business of government.
We will also need to erase the twisted effect that gerrymandering has had in NC.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 21, 2020
