Joe Sam Queen (Democrat) was the senator to the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-seventh Senate district, including constituents in Avery, Haywood, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell and Yancey counties from 2007 till 2011. An architect from Waynesville, North Carolina, Queen served one previous term (2003-2004 session) in the state Senate before being defeated in 2004 by former Yancey County commissioner Keith Presnell. Queen then defeated Presnell in 2006 and again in 2008.
A sixth generation resident of Haywood County, North Carolina, Queen is also heavily involved in other civic and cultural activities, including producing the Summer Street Dances on Main Street in Waynesville and serving as director of the Smoky Mountain Folk Festival for more than 30 years. He has also served as a boy scout master, a Sunday school teacher, a youth soccer coach and on various board and committees.
He is married to Dr. Kate Queen and has two children in college. He has an architectural practice in Waynesville.
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