Edward Hanes Jr. is an American politician. He is a former member of the North Carolina General Assembly, who represented the 72nd district in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Hanes was first elected to the North Carolina House in 2012. He resigned in August 2018. Hanes ran in the 2020 election for the United States House of Representatives for . where he lost to the general election winner, Congresswoman Kathy Manning.