Chris Cole is a
United States Libertarian Party activist in
North Carolina. He was the party's candidate for
Lieutenant Governor of
North Carolina in the
2004 general elections, earning 2% of the popular statewide vote, and more votes than any other Libertarian candidate on the ballot. He is the party's nominee for
U.S. Senate in 2008.
In 1996, Cole became the first openly gay candidate for the North Carolina General Assembly when he ran unsuccessfully as a Libertarian candidate against Speaker Jim Black. A resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, Cole has also run unsuccessfully for the Charlotte city council.
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