COBLE, Howard, 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.