North Carolina's 2nd congressional district

**North Carolina's 2nd congressional district** is a congressional district in central North Carolina.

Its current representative is Democrat Deborah Ross.

## List of representatives

|Member|Party|Years|Cong ress|Electoral history|District location|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|**Hugh Williamson**||Anti-Administration|nowrap=""|March 19, 1790 – March 3, 1791||Elected in 1790. Redistricted to the .|**1790–1791**"Edenton and New Bern division"||||
|align="left"|**Nathaniel Macon**||Anti-Administration|nowrap=""|March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1793||Elected in 1791. Redistricted to the .|**1791–1793**"Centre division"||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Matthew Locke**||Anti-Administration|nowrap=""|March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Elected in 1793. Re-elected in 1795. Re-elected in 1796. Lost re-election.|rowspan="3"|**1793–1803**|
||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1799|||||||||
|align="left"|**Archibald Henderson**||Federalist|nowrap=""|March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1803||Elected in 1798. Re-elected in 1800. Redistricted to the .|||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Willis Alston**|rowspan="2"|Democratic-Republican|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1815|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Redistricted from the  and re-elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Re-elected in 1810. Re-elected in 1813. Retired.|**1803–1813**||
|rowspan="3"|**1813–1823**|||||||||||
|align="left"|**Joseph H. Bryan**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1819||Elected in 1815. Re-elected in 1817.|||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Hutchins G. Burton**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Elected in 1819. Re-elected in 1821. Resigned when elected Governor of North Carolina.|||
||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1823 – March 23, 1824|rowspan="6"|**1823–1833**|||||||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|March 24, 1824 – January 18, 1825|rowspan="2"||||||||
|align="left"|**George Outlaw**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|January 19, 1825 – March 3, 1825|Elected January 6, 1825 to finish Burton's term and seated January 19, 1825. Lost re-election.||||||
|align="left"|**Willis Alston**||Jacksonian|nowrap=""|March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1831||Elected in 1825. Re-elected in 1827. Re-elected in 1829. Retired.|||||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|March 4, 1831 – May 12, 1831|rowspan="2"||||||||
|align="left"|**John Branch**||Jacksonian|nowrap=""|May 12, 1831 – March 3, 1833|Elected to finish the vacant term. Retired.||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Jesse A. Bynum**||Jacksonian|nowrap=""|March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="3"|**1833–1843**|
||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841|||||||||
|align="left"|**John Daniel**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843||Redistricted to the .|||||
|align="left"|**Daniel M. Barringer**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847||Redistricted to the .|rowspan="3"|**1843–1853**|||
|align="left"|**Nathaniel Boyden**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849||Retired.|||||
|align="left"|**Joseph P. Caldwell**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853||Retired.|||||
|align="left"|**Thomas H. Ruffin**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1861|||rowspan="2"|**1853–1863**|||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|March 3, 1861 – July 25, 1868||_Civil War and Reconstruction_|||||||
|align="left"|**David Heaton**||Republican|nowrap=""|July 25, 1868 – June 25, 1870||Died.|rowspan="4"|**1863–1873**|||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|June 26, 1870 – December 4, 1870|rowspan="2"||||||||
|align="left"|**Joseph Dixon**||Republican|nowrap=""|December 5, 1870 – March 3, 1871|Retired.||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Charles Thomas**|rowspan="2"|Republican|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Lost renomination.|||
|rowspan="5"|**1873–1883**|||||||||||
|align="left"|**John A. Hyman**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877||Lost renomination to immediate past governor|||||
|align="left"|**Curtis H. Brogden**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879||Retired.|||||
|align="left"|**William H. Kitchin**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881||Lost re-election.|||||
|align="left"|**Orlando Hubbs**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883||Retired.|||||
|align="left"|**James E. O'Hara**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887||Lost re-election.|rowspan="3"|**1883–1893**|||
|align="left"|**Furnifold M. Simmons**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889||Lost re-election.|||||
|align="left"|**Henry P. Cheatham**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1893||Lost re-election.|||||
|align="left"|**Frederick A. Woodard**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897||Lost re-election.|rowspan="3"|**1893–1903**|||
|align="left"|**George H. White**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901||Retired after state passage of 1900 disfranchisement constitution, which suppressed black voters for more than 60 years|||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|**Claude Kitchin**|rowspan="3"|Democratic|rowspan="3" nowrap=""|March 4, 1901 – May 31, 1923|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Died.|||
|**1903–1913**||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**1913–1933**|||||||||||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|May 31, 1923 – November 5, 1923|||||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|**John H. Kerr**|rowspan="3"|Democratic|rowspan="3" nowrap=""|November 6, 1923 – January 3, 1953|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Elected to finish Kitchens's term. Lost renomination.|||
|**1933–1943**||||||||||||
|**1943–1953**||||||||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|**L. H. Fountain**|rowspan="3"|Democratic|rowspan="3" nowrap=""|January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1983|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Retired.|**1953–1963**||
|**1963–1973**||||||||||||
|**1973–1983**||||||||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Tim Valentine**|rowspan="2"|Democratic|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Retired.|**1983–1993**||
|rowspan="3"|**1993–2003**|||||||||||
|align="left"|**David Funderburk**||Republican|nowrap=""|January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997||Lost re-election.|||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Bob Etheridge**|rowspan="2"|Democratic|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2011|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Lost re-election.|||
|rowspan="2"|**2003–2013**|||||||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Renee Ellmers**|rowspan="2"|Republican|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2017|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Lost renomination.|||
|rowspan="2"|**2013–2017**|||||||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**George Holding**|rowspan="2"|Republican|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|January 3, 2017 – January 3, 2021|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Redistricted from the Retired after Redistricting.|||
|rowspan="2"|**2017–2021**|||||||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Deborah Ross**|rowspan="2"|Democratic|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|January 3, 2021 – Present|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Elected in 2020.|||
|rowspan="99"|**2021-Present**|||||||||||

## Infobox (u.s. congressional district)

- **state**: North Carolina
- **district number**: 2
- **image name**: United States Congressional Districts in North Carolina, 2021 - 2023.tif
- **image width**: 400
- **image caption**: North Carolina's 2nd congressional district (in light green) since January 3, 2021
- **representative**: Deborah K. Ross, Deborah Ross
- **party**: Democratic
- **residence**: Raleigh
- **percent urban**: 62.82
- **percent rural**: 37.18
- **population**: 888,547
- **population year**: 2019
- **median income**: $75,366
- **percent white**: 71.33
- **percent black**: 20.11
- **percent asian**: 1.37
- **percent native american**: 0.62
- **percent hispanic**: 9.55
- **cpvi**: D+9