Roger Dean Sharpe is a public servant, author and North Carolina politician.

He was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives from the state's Fifth congressional district in 2006, losing to incumbent Virginia Foxx.

He later taught at East Carolina University before working for the National School Boards Association, representing its interests before Congress and the White House.

[4][1] In the U.S. House of Representatives election of 2006 for the 5th Congressional District, the Democrats' top choice, popular Winston-Salem mayor Allen Joines, decided not to run.

Joines later said that he didn't have the stomach for the kind of race he felt it would take to defeat the incumbent, Virginia Foxx.