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2010 Arizona Elections
The 2010 Arizona state elections were held on November 2, 2010, with primaries on August 24, 2010. These include gubernatorial and both sides of Congress. A special election was also on May 18 for Arizona Proposition 100 (2010), Proposition 100. Federal United States Senate John McCain announced his plans to run again for Senate on November 25, 2008, just 21 days after losing the 2008 United States presidential election, 2008 presidential race. McCain faced a primary challenge from former United States House of Representatives, representative J.D. Hayworth, and Jim Deakin. The Democratic candidates were Rodney B. Glassman, Rudy Garcia, and John Dougherty (Journalist), John Dougherty. In the general election, the candidates were incumbent John McCain (R), Rodney Glassman (D), Jerry Joslyn (Arizona Green Party, G), and David Nolan (libertarian), David Nolan (Arizona Libertarian Party, L). United States House Elections were held for all Arizona's congressional districts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Arizona Elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Arizona on November 4, 2014. All of Arizona's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives. Partisan primary, Primary elections were held on August 26, 2014. U.S. House of Representatives All of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2014. Governor Incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican governor Jan Brewer was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a second full term in office. After a bitter six-candidate primary, Republicans nominated State Treasurer of Arizona, Arizona State Treasurer Doug Ducey; Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Fred DuVal, the former chairman of the Arizona Board of Regents, won his party's nomination unopposed. Secretary of State Incumbent Republican Secretary of State of Arizona, secretary of state Ken Bennett was term-limite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shadegg
John Barden Shadegg (; born October 22, 1949) is an American politician and former U.S. representative for , serving from 1995 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district, numbered as the 4th district before the 2000 census, included much of northern Phoenix. Early life, education and career Shadegg is the son of the former Eugenia Kerr and Stephen Shadegg, both deceased. The senior Shadegg, a conservative political consultant and public relations specialist, supported Barry Goldwater's 1952, 1958, 1968, 1974, and 1980 U.S. Senate campaigns and worked with F. Clifton White and Peter O'Donnell to organize the Draft Goldwater Committee in the 1963–64 presidential campaign. The Shadeggs are of partial Swiss descent. John Shadegg was born in Phoenix and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona at Tucson in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona Law School, also in Tucson, in 1975. He served in the Arizona Air Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor
A governor is an politician, administrative leader and head of a polity or Region#Political regions, political region, in some cases, such as governor-general, governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' may be either appointed or elected, and the governor's powers can vary significantly, depending on the public laws in place locally. The adjective pertaining to a governor is gubernatorial, from the Latin root ''gubernare''. In a federated state, the governor may serve as head of state and head of government for their regional polity, while still operating under the laws of the federation, which has its own head of state for the entire federation. Ancient empires Pre-Roman empires Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administered by a governor, was created by the ancient Rome, Romans, the term ''governor'' has been a convenient term for historians to describe si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and later worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the ''Harvard Law Review''. He became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. In 1996, Obama was elected to represent the 13th district in the Illinois Senate, a position he held until 2004, when he successfully ran for the U.S. Senate. In the 2008 pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Secretary Of Homeland Security
The United States secretary of homeland security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the federal department tasked with ensuring public safety in the United States. The secretary is a member of the Cabinet of the United States. The position was created by the Homeland Security Act following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The new department consisted primarily of components transferred from other Cabinet departments because of their role in homeland security, such as the Coast Guard, the Federal Protective Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (which includes the United States Border Patrol), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (which includes Homeland Security Investigations), the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The current secretary of homeland security is Kristi Noem, since January 25, 2025. List of secretaries of homeland secu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Napolitano
Janet Ann Napolitano (; born November 29, 1957) is an American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator. She served as president of the University of California from 2013 to 2020, on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley since 2015, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, United States secretary of homeland security from 2009 to 2013 (during the administration of President Barack Obama), and the 21st List of governors of Arizona, governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009. Napolitano also served as Chairwoman of the National Governors Association for the 2006–2007 cycle, becoming the first woman to do so. Prior to her election as governor, she served as Arizona Attorney General, attorney general of Arizona from 1999 to 2003. She was the first woman and the 23rd person to serve in that office. Napolitano had earlier served as the United States Attorney, United States attorney for the United States District Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Paton
Jonathan Paton (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who served in both houses of the Arizona State Legislature. He served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, and participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a Republican, he was first elected to represent Arizona's 30th legislative district in the Arizona House of Representatives in 2004. In 2008, he was elected to the Arizona Senate from the same district. On January 17, 2010, Paton announced he would be challenging Democratic U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords in that year's election. He subsequently resigned from the state senate to focus his efforts on campaigning for Congress. Paton lost in the 2010 Republican primary and endorsed his former opponent, Jesse Kelly. He ran for Congress again in 2012, this time in Arizona's newly redrawn 1st congressional district, ending in close defeat against Democratic opponent Ann Kirkpatrick. Early life, education, and early career Paton was born in Tucson, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Schweikert
David Sheridan Schweikert ( ; born March 3, 1962) is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative from since 2023. The district covers northeastern Maricopa County. He previously served as the U.S. representative for from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he first entered Congress in 2011, representing until redistricting. His district includes most of northern Phoenix as well as Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and Cave Creek. Schweikert served two terms in the Arizona State House of Representatives (1991–1994), chaired the state Board of Equalization (1995–2004), and was the elected Maricopa County treasurer (2004–2007). He ran for the U.S. House of Representatives twice (losing the primary to J. D. Hayworth in 1994 and the general election to incumbent Harry Mitchell in 2008) before being elected in 2010. Schweikert and Paul Gosar have shared the deanship of Arizona's congressional delegation since the death of Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabby Giffords
Gabrielle Dee Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is an American retired politician and gun violence prevention advocate. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned due to a severe brain injury suffered during 2011 Tucson shooting, an assassination attempt. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, she was the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Giffords graduated from Scripps College and Cornell University. After initially moving to New York City, where she worked in regional economic development for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Price Waterhouse, she returned to Arizona to work as the CEO of El Campo Tire Warehouses, a family business started by her grandfather. She served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2001 until 2003 and the Arizona Senate from 2003 until 2005 when she was elected to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Mitchell
Harry Everett Mitchell (born July 18, 1940) is an American politician and educator who served as a U.S. Representative representing from 2007 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Early life, education and career Born and raised in Tempe, Arizona, Mitchell earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Arizona State University in 1962. He later earned a Master of Public Administration degree from ASU in 1980. He was a teacher at Tempe High School, his high school alma mater, 1964–1992. He was also a professor. Early political career In 1970, Harry Mitchell sought and won a seat on the elected-at-large Tempe City Council. Re-elected in 1974, Mitchell ran for Mayor of Tempe in 1978, gaining a majority of votes cast in the primary and avoiding a runoff. He went on to win every subsequent election for mayor in landslides until his retirement in 1994. A largstatueof Mitchell stands just off Mill Avenue, next to City Hall and the other buildings comprisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Paradise Valley is a desert and mountain town in Arizona east of state capital Phoenix. The town is known for its golf courses, spectacular mountain views, numerous upscale resorts and restaurants, natural beauty with desert landscaping and gorgeous sunsets, high end real estate with zoning that ensures large lots, the workshop of Paolo Soleri, and close proximity to Scottsdale and Phoenix. According to the 2020 census, its population was 12,658. The town's name comes from the expansive area known as Paradise Valley that spreads from north of the Phoenix Mountains to Cave Creek and Carefree on the north and the McDowell Mountains to the east. Resident children in the majority of the municipality attend schools in the Scottsdale Unified School District. History The town's history dates to a more agrarian society. After the initial European settlement, Paradise Valley was first used for cattle grazing. In the 1880s, when the land was being surveyed so it could be develope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Waring
Jim Waring (born 27 December 1967) is an American politician, who served as state senator for seven years in the Arizona State Senate and now represents District 2 on the Phoenix City Council. A Republican, he represented State Legislative District 7, covering parts of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Cave Creek and Carefree. First elected in 2002, Waring was re-elected by large majorities in 2004, 2006 and 2008. He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2008, and ran for Congress in 2010. Early life and education A native of Downers Grove, Illinois, he received his undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, as well as a M.A. in Political Science, a Masters in Public Administration, and a PhD in Public Administration from Arizona State University, having written a dissertation on education finance. He was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Political career Arizona State Senate During his time at the legislature, Wari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
