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Representative Nelson Cole

Donald Draper Campbell

N.C. House of Representatives

69th District

B.S.E.E., FSA Scot.
 
 

 

 

Representative

Nelson Cole

 
State Representative Nelson Cole is in his sixth term serving Rockingham County in North Carolina’s 65th House district.
Born in rural northern Mecklenburg County, Nelson attended North Carolina public schools at the age of 11 he was delivering newspapers and by the age of 15 he was laying brick.
In 1962 he received a degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.  After graduating, he worked for one of the nation’s top-3 auto manufacturers for 18 years-starting in Charlotte.  In 1971 he was transferred to Detroit then to San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, and New York.
In 1980 after five moves in nine years, he and his wife decided to move back to their native state, North Carolina, in lieu of continuing to be corporate vagabond.

Ever since then, Nelson has been a community activist in addition to running his own business.  A founding director of the Soup Kitchen and Habitat for Humanity, past president of the Chamber of Commerce, serving on the board of directors of the United Way, and being an elder and Sunday School teacher of  his church.  He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Old North State Council of the Boy Scouts of America.  In 2008 he received the “Award of Merit” for his volunteer service to the Boy Scouts of America in Rockingham County.

In the General Assembly, Nelson soon became a leading advocate for making North Carolina as business friendly and job friendly as possible.  He is the Chairman of the House Transportation Appropriations Committee with an annual budget of 3.7 billion dollars.  He is also Chairman of Transportation Oversight Committee where policies and future planning are determined.  He is vice chair of the Appropriations and Public Utilities Committees.  In 2006 he was named co-chair of the Rules, Calendar and Operations of the House, which is the single most powerful Committee in the House.

In 2008, he has been named to be on the following committees:

  • 21st Century Transportation Committee

  • House Select Committee on Street Gang Prevention

  • Joint Select Committee for Economic Development Incentives

  • Joint Legislative Commission for DOT Disadvantages Minority-owned and Women-owned Businesses Program

  • House Select Committee on a Comprehensive Rail Service for North Carolina

This past year, the non-partisan North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research named him the “most effective representative” in the greater Rockingham, Forsyth, Guilford and Alamance county area and the 15th most effective in the state.  Also this year NC FREE, a business advocacy organization for political leaders, ranked him the #1 business advocate in the House of Democratic Party.

Nelson and his wife of 47 years, Libby, have three daughters and three granddaughters.  One daughter is a nurse in Charlotte, one is at Rockingham County’s Department of Social Services and his youngest daughter is a special education teacher at Reidsville Middle School.
 

 

 
 

Donald Draper Campbell, B.S.E.E., FSA Scot.

Sennachie to the Clan Campbell Society of North America

 

 

Arms : gyronny of eight Or and Sable, the first charged with four ibises' heads erased of the second, within a bordure Azure (borne during the lifetime of his father debruised of a three point label Azure)
 
Crest : an ibis Sabler
 
Motto : IN HARMONY
 

Matriculated : The Court of the Lord Lyon, Scotland. 20th February 1984. Lyon Register, vol. 65, folios 88 & 89.

 

Mr Campbell has traced his family's lineage back more than seven generations to a John Campbell (b. c1775, in the highlands of Scotland; d. 1831, Georgia) who, with his future bride Mary Nicholson, immigrated to South Carolina from Scotland on the same ship following the American Revolutionary War. John and Mary were residing in South Carolina for the birth of at least three of their children: John (jr) (1800-1838), Neill (1802-1875) and Flora (1805-18??), and in particular Marlborough District for son Neill. John and Mary settled finally in Appling County, Georgia, in the late 1810's.