Daniel Francis McComas (born May 26, 1953, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) has served as a Republican member of the

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representing the state's nineteenth House district in

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. After nine terms in the

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, McComas announced that he would not seek re-election in 2012. Then, he resigned before the end of his final term to accept Gov.

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's appointment as chairman of the North Carolina Ports Authority. In that post, he succeeded another former state legislator, Carl J. Stewart, Jr. A business executive from Wilmington, McComas was the first Hispanic member of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1995. He is a graduate of

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in New York. In 1998, he received the Razor Walker Award from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington School of Education. He is the owner and president of MCO Transport, a shipping company based in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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