Howard Coble

A Representative from North Carolina. Born in Greensboro, Guilford County, N. C. , March 18, 1931. Attended Appalachian State University, Boone, N. C. , 1949-1950. A. B. , Guilford College, Greensboro, N. C. , 1958. J. D. , University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, 1962. United States Coast Guard, 1952-1956, 1977-1978. United States Coast Guard Reserve, 1960-1982. Admitted to the North Carolina state bar, 1966. Member of the North Carolina state house of representatives, 1969, and 1979-1983. Assistant attorney, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, 1969-1973. Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Revenue, 1973-1977. Elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 2015). Was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress in 2014. Died on November 3, 2015, in Greensboro, N. C. Interment at Alamance Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, N. C.