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J. Wesley Sills
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2019 - Present
2023
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J. Wesley Sills is a member of the Dunn City Council in North Carolina, representing Ward 1. Sills assumed office on December 10, 2019. Sills' term ended in 2023.
Sills ran for election to the Dunn City Council to represent Ward 1 in North Carolina. Sills won in the general election on October 8, 2019.
Sills was a Republican candidate for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction in the 2016 elections.[1] He was defeated in the March 15 primary election.
Biography
Sills graduated from UNC Wilmington and worked as a social studies teacher starting in 2012.[2] Prior to that, he worked as a yachtsman in South America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific.[3]
Education
- B.A. in political science, University of North Carolina-Wilmington[3]
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Dunn, North Carolina (2019)
General election
General election for Dunn City Council Ward 1
J. Wesley Sills won election in the general election for Dunn City Council Ward 1 on October 8, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | J. Wesley Sills (Nonpartisan) | 88.1 | 89 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 11.9 | 12 | ||
| Total votes: 101 | |||
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2016
Sills filed to run as a Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction in 2016.[1] He was defeated in the March 15 primary election.
| North Carolina Superintendent of Schools Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Mark Johnson |
53.3% | 441,865 | ||
| Rosemary Stein | 32.9% | 272,131 | ||
| J. Wesley Sills | 13.8% | 114,274 | ||
| Total Votes | 828,270 | |||
| Election results via North Carolina State Board of Elections. | ||||
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2016
Sills' campaign themes included raising the expectations of students and focusing on the content of the subject material over assessment, accepting federal funding to address the gap in the education budget, salary increases for teachers, and teaching students literacy through use of traditional, analogue materials in lieu of digital technology.[4]
See also
2019 Elections
External links
Footnotes
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