Dan Bishop

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James Daniel Bishop (born July 1, 1964) is an American attorney and politician serving as the United States attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2025, as a U.S. representative from North Carolina from 2019 to 2025, as a North Carolina state senator from 2017 to 2019, as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017, and as a member of the Mecklenburg County Commission from 2005 to 2009. Bishop was the lead author of North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, commonly called the bathroom bill, which prohibited transgender people from using public restrooms other than those of the sex listed on their birth certificates. As a result of backlash, North Carolina lost a significant amount of revenue from companies and other organizations who chose to withdraw their investments in the state. On September 10, 2019, Bishop...

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