Democrat Alma Adams Officially North Carolina’s Newest House Member

RALEIGH, N.C. — AP-  North Carolina will have a 13th U.S. House member again after a vacancy that lasted ten months.

Democrat Alma Adams was slated was sworn in to the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening as Congress reconvenes following its fall election break.

Adams won two 12th District elections last week — one to serve out the rest of former Rep. Mel Watt’s two-year term after he resigned last January to become director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and another for the next two-year term of Congress.

Gov. Pat McCrory decided to hold a special election for the seat at the same time as the general election, leading to the extended vacancy.

Adams is a former college professor from Greensboro who served in the state House for 20 years.