Jim Rubens is an American politician from the state of

New Hampshire New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...

. A member of the Republican Party, Rubens served in the

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for two terms.

Biography

Rubens was born in

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. He attended

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

. He worked as a developer and investor. Identifying himself as a fiscal conservative, Rubens formed a new

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in 1993, called the New Majority, an offshoot of the

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. Rubens ran for the

in 1994, challenging Ralph Hough in the Republican Party

primary election Primary elections or primaries are elections held to determine which candidates will run in an upcoming general election. In a partisan primary, a political party selects a candidate. Depending on the state and/or party, there may be an "open pr ...

. Rubens defeated Hough, and won in the general election. In 1995 he was sworn in. Rubens was reelected in 1996. Rather than run for reelection to the New Hampshire Senate in 1998, he ran for

Governor of New Hampshire The governor of New Hampshire is the head of government of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The governor is elected during the biennial state general election in November of even-numbered years. New Hampshire is one of only two states, along w ...

in the 1998 election, but lost. Rubens ran again for the state Senate in 2000, but lost. Rubens recently served as the chairman of the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling. He stepped down from this position when he became a candidate for the

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, seeking the Republican nomination in the 2014 election. He had the support of the

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for the race. Rubens lost the primary election to Scott Brown. Rubens lost to incumbent Senator Kelly Ayotte in the 2016 election. Rubens in 2010 published a non-fiction book, OverSuccess, Healing the American Obsession with Wealth, Fame, Power and Perfectio

One of the book's theses is that success benchmarks and competition for social status have sharply escalated over past decades, shrinking space for personal recognition for many Americans, leading to documented increases in several forms of individual, societal and cultural pathology. Rubens serves on the board of American Promis

which seeks ratification by 2026 of a constitutional amendment restoring power to Congress and the States to set reasonable limits on campaign spending and contributions. Rubens serves as New England chair for Take Back Our Republi

the nation's leading conservative anti-corruption organization.

Personal

Rubens is from

Hanover, New Hampshire Hanover is a New England town, town located along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 11,870. The town is home to the Ivy League university ...

. He has a wife and a son.

References

External links

Official campaign site
* * Dartmouth College alumni Living people Republican Party New Hampshire state senators Politicians from Brooklyn Politicians from Hanover, New Hampshire Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century members of the New Hampshire General Court {{NewHampshire-NHSenate-stub