Robert Mitchell Gillespie is a former Assistant Secretary of the

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, and a former

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member of the North Carolina General Assembly. He represented the eighty-fifth district in the North Carolina House of Representatives, which included constituents from

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, Caldwell and McDowell counties. A small business owner from

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, Gillespie served seven terms in the state House and was re-elected to an eighth term, but resigned to take his position in the executive branch in January 2013.News & Observer: Rep. Gillespie resigns

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