{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\n\nAnthony Ryan Morrow is a Republican candidate for the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners District 1 in North Carolina. He ran in the March 3, 2026 Republican primary against four other candidates.\n\n## Career\n\nMorrow is an attorney running the Law Office of Anthony R. Morrow in Rutherfordton, NC, handling criminal defense, DWI, traffic, and family law matters in Western North Carolina. He enlisted in the US Navy at age 17, was trained as a Yeoman, and was assigned to the USS George Washington (CVN 73) homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, completing two Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Gulf deployments in 2002 and 2004. After graduating from law school, he joined the Cook County (Illinois) State's Attorney's Office as an Assistant State's Attorney in the Child Protective Services Division. He later served as a staff attorney with the Burke County Department of Social Services in NC, litigating child protective services cases.\n\n## Sources\n\n- [1] [Attorney Bio \u2013 Law Office of Anthony R. Morrow](https://anthonymorrowlaw.com/attorney-bio/)","campaigns":[{"contest":"county_commission_district_01","county":"rutherford","county_count":1,"electiondate":"Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT","pgr":"general","state":"NC","title":"Rutherford County Board Of Commissioners District 01"}],"cf_filings":[],"firstname":"Anthony","fullname":"Anthony Ryan Morrow","lastname":"Morrow","middlename":"Ryan","office_history":[{"campaigns":[{"contest":"county_commission_district_01","contest_title":"Rutherford County Board Of Commissioners District 01","county":"rutherford","county_count":1,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":"rutherford","office_key":"county_commission","office_title":"County Commissioner","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"}],"county":"rutherford","cycles":[{"general":{"contest":"county_commission_district_01","contest_title":"Rutherford County Board Of Commissioners District 01","county":"rutherford","county_count":1,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":"rutherford","office_key":"county_commission","office_title":"County Commissioner","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"},"party":"REP","primary":null,"term":null,"year":2026}],"office_key":"county_commission","office_title":"County Commissioner","state":"NC","terms":[]}],"terms":[],"token":"4d28637b0d5d0640"}