Dan Bishop Biography, Age, Family, Wife, Senate, Electoral History and New Worth

Dan Bishop Biography

Dan Bishop (full name: James Daniel Bishop) is an American attorney and politician serving in the North Carolina State Senate since 2017. A Republican, Bishop’s district is located in south-central Mecklenburg County.

Dan previously served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017, and the Mecklenburg County Commission from 2005 to 2009.

He is a strong opponent of LGBT rights and was the lead writer of North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill” which prohibited transgender individuals from using public restrooms other than those by their biological sex as defined on their birth certificates. The bill was signed into law.

The bill stirred a substantial public backlash, and analysts estimated it cost the state of North Carolina $3.7 billion. It was afterward overruled by a federal judge in Asheville in a ruling affirmed by the United States Supreme Court.

On September 10, 2019, Bishop won the 2019 special election to the U.S. House of Representatives with 50.8% of the vote to Dan McCready’s 48.6%. He contributed $500 toward the establishment of the pro First Amendment social network Gab.ai, a website criticized for allowing white supremacist content in August 2017.

Dan Bishop Education

Bishop attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received a B.S. in business administration in 1986 and a J.D. in 1990 from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1990.

Dan Bishop Age

James Daniel Bishop was born on July 1, 1964, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. He is 55 years old as of 2019.

Dan Bishop Family

Bishop has not shared any information regarding his father, mother, and siblings. He prefers keeping his personal life very private.

Dan Bishop Wife

Bishop is married to Jo Bishop and together the couple has one child, Jack Bishop. Bishop has not yet disclosed any further information about his family since he prefers to keep it personal.

Dan Bishop Politics

Dan has attracted attention for statements attacking journalists, which have been likened to statements by Donald Trump’s. On one occasion, Daniel Bishop criticized the Raleigh press corps over coverage of the state budget, calling reporters the “jihad media.”

County Commission and state House

From 2004 to 2008, Bishop was a member of the Mecklenburg County Commission. After a six-year absence from politics, Bishop was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives from a south Charlotte seat for a single term (2015-2017), running against a Libertarian opponent, Eric Cable, but without a Democratic one. His district was House District 104. Bishop succeeded Ruth Samuelson, who retired from the House.

Dan Bishop Senate

In November 2016, Bishop won his current North Carolina State Senate District 39 seat to succeed Bob Rucho who was not seeking re-election. Bishop received 58,739 votes (52.81%), defeating Democrat Lloyd Scher, who received 44,655 (47.19%).

During the 2017-2018 legislative session, Dan was the co-chairman of the Select Committee on Judicial Reform and Redistricting, the vice-chairman of the Select Committee on Elections, and a member of several additional committees.

In the state Senate, he was one of the primary sponsors of the legislation in 2017 that would prevent persons living near North Carolina factory farms from recovering meaningful damages in civil actions against agribusinesses found responsible for harming them.

Dan Bishop Electoral History

On March 14, 2019, Bishop announced he would run for the U.S. House of Representatives, he entered the 9th congressional district special election. On May 14, 2019, he won the Republican Party primary with 37% of the vote.

Dan Bishop LGBT

He was the architect of the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, or House Bill 2. The controversial “bathroom bill” legislation restricted transgender individuals from using gender-segregated public facilities, other than those identified for use by their biological sex as defined on their birth certificates. The bill was signed into law by Republican Governor Pat McCrory.

It also invalidated a local nondiscrimination law passed by the Charlotte City Council and prohibited any local government in North Carolina from enacting new protections for gay, lesbian, or transgender individuals.

He used his sponsorship of HB2 in fundraising emails, stating that he stood up to the “radical transgender agenda.” Also his role in promoting HB 2 raised the profile of the freshman state senator. After a public backlash against the legislation and economic harms of $3.7 billion in 2017, HB 2 was repealed and replaced with new compromise legislation brokered between Democratic Governor Roy Cooper and the Republican leadership of the state legislature.

Dan was the only senator to make a floor speech against HB 2’s revocation, calling it a “betrayal of principle.” In emails from Bishop finally made public under North Carolina’s public-records law, Dan compared LGBT rights activists to the Taliban.

A video showing HB 2 protesters shouting “shame” at former Governor McCrory during protests in Washington D.C. was released. Bishop went ahead stating that he supported legislation that would criminalize such political behavior.

Dan Bishop Net Worth

Bishop has earned big from hi career in law and also as a politician. However, his net worth is not yet disclosed to the public.

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