North Carolina's 3rd congressional district

**North Carolina's 3rd congressional district** is a congressional district in North Carolina.

Its representative is Republican Greg Murphy.

## List of representatives

|Member|Party|Years|Cong ress|Electoral history|District location|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|**Timothy Bloodworth**||Anti-Administration|nowrap|April 6, 1790 – March 3, 1791||Elected in 1790. Redistricted to the  and lost re-election.|**1790–1971** "Cape Fear division"||
|align=left|**John B. Ashe**||Anti-Administration|nowrap|March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1793||Redistricted from the  and re-elected in 1791. Redistricted to the .|**1791–1973**||
|align=left|**Joseph Winston**||Anti-Administration|nowrap|March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795||Elected in 1793. Lost re-election.|rowspan=3|**1793–1803**|
|align=left|**Jesse Franklin**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797||Elected in 1795. Lost re-election.|||
|align=left|**Robert Williams**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1803||Elected in 1796. Re-elected in 1798. Re-elected in 1800. Redistricted to the  and retired to run for Governor of North Carolina.|||
|align=left|**William Kennedy**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805||Elected in 1803. Lost re-election.|rowspan=6|**1803–1813**|
|align=left|**Thomas Blount**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1809||Elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Lost re-election.|||
|align=left|**William Kennedy**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811||Elected in 1808. Retired.|||
|align=left|**Thomas Blount**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1811 – February 7, 1812||Elected in 1810. Died.|||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|February 7, 1812 – January 30, 1813|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**William Kennedy**|rowspan=2|Democratic-Republican|rowspan=2 nowrap|January 30, 1813 – March 3, 1815|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Elected January 11, 1813 to finish Blount's term and seated January 30, 1813. Re-elected in 1813. Retired.|
|rowspan=3|**1813–1823**|||||||||
|align=left|**James W. Clark**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817||Elected in 1815. Retired.|||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Thomas H. Hall**||Democratic-Republican|rowspan=2 nowrap|March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1825|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Elected in 1817. Re-elected in 1819. Re-elected in 1821. Re-elected in 1823. Lost re-election.|
||Democratic-Republican|rowspan=3|**1823–1833**|||||||
|align=left|**Richard Hines**||Jacksonian|nowrap|March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1827||Elected in 1825. Lost re-election.|||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Thomas H. Hall**|rowspan=2|Jacksonian|rowspan=2 nowrap|March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1835|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Elected in 1827. Re-elected in 1829.|
|rowspan=3|**1833–1843**|||||||||
|align=left|**Ebenezer Pettigrew**||Anti-Jacksonian|nowrap|March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837|||||
|align=left|**Edward Stanly**||Whig|nowrap|March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1843|||||
|align=left|**David S. Reid**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847|||rowspan=4|**1843–1853**|
|align=left|**Daniel M. Barringer**||Whig|nowrap|March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849||Redistricted from the .|||
|align=left|**Edmund Deberry**||Whig|nowrap|March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851|||||
|align=left|**Alfred Dockery**||Whig|nowrap|March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853|||||
|align=left|**William S. Ashe**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855||Redistricted from the .|rowspan=3|**1853–1863**|
|align=left|**Warren Winslow**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1861|||||
|rowspan=2 colspan=2|_Vacant_|rowspan=2 nowrap|March 3, 1861 – July 13, 1868|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Civil War and Reconstruction|||
|rowspan=3|**1863–1873**|||||||||
|align=left|**Oliver H. Dockery**||Republican|nowrap|July 13, 1868 – March 3, 1871|||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Alfred M. Waddell**|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=2 nowrap|March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1879|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=4|**1873–1883**|||||||||
|align=left|**Daniel L. Russell**||Greenback|nowrap|March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881|||||
|align=left|**John W. Shackelford**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1881 – January 18, 1883|rowspan=2||Died.||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|January 18, 1883 – March 3, 1883|||||||
|align=left|**Wharton J. Green**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887|||rowspan=3|**1883–1893**|
|align=left|**Charles W. McClammy**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891|||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Benjamin F. Grady**|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=2 nowrap|March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=4|**1893–1903**|||||||||
|align=left|**John G. Shaw**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897|||||
|align=left|**John E. Fowler**||Populist|nowrap|March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899|||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Charles R. Thomas**|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=2 nowrap|March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1911|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=2|**1903–1913**|||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**John M. Faison**|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=2 nowrap|March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=5|**1913–1933**|||||||||
|align=left|**George E. Hood**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919|||||
|align=left|**Samuel M. Brinson**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1919 – April 13, 1922||Died.|||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|April 13, 1922 – November 7, 1922|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Charles L. Abernethy**|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=2 nowrap|November 7, 1922 – January 3, 1935|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=2|**1933–1943**|||||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|**Graham A. Barden**|rowspan=3|Democratic|rowspan=3 nowrap|January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1961|rowspan=3||rowspan=3||
|**1943–1953**||||||||||
|rowspan=2|**1953–1963**|||||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|**David N. Henderson**|rowspan=3|Democratic|rowspan=3 nowrap|January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1977|rowspan=3||rowspan=3||
|**1963–1973**||||||||||
|rowspan=2|**1973–1983**|||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Charles O. Whitley**|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=2 nowrap|January 3, 1977 – December 31, 1986|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Resigned.|
|rowspan=3|**1983–1993**|||||||||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|December 31, 1986 – January 3, 1987|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|**Martin Lancaster**|rowspan=2|Democratic|rowspan=2 nowrap|January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1995|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Lost re-election.|
|rowspan=2|**1993–2003**|||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|**Walter B. Jones Jr.**|rowspan=4|Republican|rowspan=4 nowrap|January 3, 1995 – February 10, 2019|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|Elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Died.|
|**2003–2013**||||||||||
|**2013–2017**||||||||||
|rowspan=3|**2017–Present**|||||||||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|February 10, 2019 – September 10, 2019|||||||
|align=left|**Greg Murphy**||Republican|nowrap|September 10, 2019 – present||Elected to finish Jones's term. Re-elected in 2020.|||

## Infobox (u.s. congressional district)

- **state**: North Carolina
- **population**: 761,753
- **percent other race**: 1.48
- **percent hispanic**: 5.77
- **percent native american**: 0.8
- **percent asian**: 1.21
- **percent black**: 20.55
- **percent white**: 74
- **median income**: $53,545
- **population year**: 2019
- **percent rural**: 46.87
- **district number**: 3
- **percent urban**: 53.13
- **residence**: Greenville
- **party**: Republican
- **representative**: Greg Murphy (politician), Greg Murphy
- **image caption**: North Carolina's 3rd congressional district since January 3, 2021
- **image width**: 400
- **image name**: United States Congressional Districts in North Carolina, 2021 - 2023.tif
- **cpvi**: R+12