--- type: Person title: "Ralph Hise" description: "NC Senate District 47 — NC State Senate District 47" role: "NC Senate District 47" party: "R" level: "state" branch: "legislative" state: "NC" district: "NC State Senate District 47" represents: "us/states/nc/districts/senate/47" tenure: start: "2011-01-26" current: true election: term_length: 2 term_limit: "varies" ids: person: "e4aa5a95-4182-4042-be16-898e93c78b19" office: "244ee020-c2b1-4b2e-9637-abaa1b2fea9a" tenure: "228a2d16-13cd-48fd-b37a-e9b8ba59fe38" jurisdiction: "7c9ef007-8382-4628-b4b1-a2ded5c6542a" sources: - field: tenure source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20" - field: jurisdiction source: "SLDU (Census 2025)" confidence: official tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, nc] timestamp: "2026-07-04" --- # Ralph Hise Current NC Senate District 47 (NC State Senate District 47). Represents [NC State Senate District 47](/us/states/nc/districts/senate/47.md). ## Sources - tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20 - jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025) Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).