RALEIGH—At a North Carolina State Republican Executive Committee meeting held in Raleigh on February 16, 2008, the North Carolina Republican Party  elected a new National Committeeman to represent the NCGOP with the Republican National Committee.  State Representative David Lewis will fill the position recently vacated by Ed McMahan.  Lewis will represent the NCGOP at the Republican National Convention to be held September 1-4, 2008 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rep. Lewis is currently serving in his second term in the N.C. House of Representatives District 53.  He is, or has been, a member of the Committees on Agriculture, Education, Education Sub-Committee on Community Colleges, Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform, Finance, Insurance and Transportation, and the Aging Commission.

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