Patrick Smathers

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Patrick Underwood "Pat" Smathers has served as the Mayor of Canton, North Carolina since 1999, and is currently running for Lieutenant Governor of his state. He has made his living as an attorney for 27 years. He is the attorney for the Haywood County School System and Haywood Community College. He also serves in the North Carolina Army National Guard as a Lieutenant Colonel, and is a graduate from the United States Army War College Class of 2006.

Smathers is a graduate of Duke University, where he played football under an athletic scholarship. He is also a graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Law.

He is a member of the North Carolina Local Government Commission, a member of the Haywood Rotary Club, and is involved in the North Carolina Democratic Party Task Force on Western North Carolina. He was Haywood County's Rotary Citizen of the Year in 2003 and was elected to the Pisgah High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. He also serves as the Vice president of the Haywood County Democratic Men's Club, was chairman of the 2003 Vance-Aycock Dinner, and is a former County party chair.

His slogan is "Local Leadership, Statewide."