Mark Robinson (American politician)
Mark Keith Robinson (born August 18, 1968[1]) is an American politician who has served as the 35th lieutenant governor of North Carolina since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he is the first African American to hold the office of lieutenant governor in North Carolina. He is the Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina in the 2024 election. Robinson defeated Democratic nominee Yvonne Lewis Holley in the 2020 lieutenant gubernatorial election. Robinson has promoted various far-right conspiracy theories, engaged in Holocaust denial,[2][3] denied sexual assualt allegations against various prominent figures,[4] and has often made inflammatory anti-LGBT,[5][6][7] antisemitic,[8] racist,[9] anti-atheist,[10] and Islamophobic statements.[6][11]
Mark Robinson
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1985–1989
Early life and education
Robinson was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, as the ninth of ten children.[12] Robinson has said that his father was abusive and alcoholic, and that he and his family suffered from domestic violence; Robinson and his siblings lived in foster care for part of their childhood, before moving back in with their mother, who worked as a custodian.[13][14] After graduating from Grimsley High School,[15] he served in the Army Reserve, later attending North Carolina A&T State University and working at several furniture factories in the Triad region.[13][16] While working in furniture manufacturing, he took history classes at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with the goal of securing a degree and becoming a history teacher.[6] He graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in history in December 2022.[17]
