Michigan's 70th House Of Representatives District
Michigan's 70th House of Representatives district (also referred to as Michigan's 70th House district) is a legislative district within the Michigan House of Representatives located in part of Genesee County. The district was created in 1965, when the Michigan House of Representatives The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members, each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents, based on population figures from the 2010 ... district naming scheme changed from a county-based system to a numerical one. List of representatives Recent Elections Historical district boundaries References {{Michigan House of Representatives Michigan House of Representatives districts Gratiot County, Michigan Montcalm County, Michigan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pat Outman
Patrick Outman (born 1992) is an American politician from Michigan. A member of the Republican, he is a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 70th district. Elected in 2020, he assumed office on January 1, 2021. Early life, education, and career Pat Outman was born around 1992 in Six Lakes, Michigan to father Rick Outman. In 2010, Pat graduated from Lakeview High School. Pat later earned a degree in business administration and legal studies from Ferris State University, where he graduated with honors. Outman worked for his family's excavating business and cattle farm. Political career Before being elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, Outman was a staffer in the state legislature.Lauren GibbonsWho's new in the Michigan House of Representatives ''MLive'' (January 5, 2021). He was elected to the state House as a Republican from 70th district in November 2020. He took office in January 2021. He replaced outgoing state Representative Jim Lower, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Greenville, Michigan
Greenville is a city in Montcalm County, Michigan, Montcalm County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,816 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Greenville is named after its founder, John Green, who settled in the wilderness of the southwest part of Montcalm County in 1844. John Green constructed a sawmill on the Flat River (Michigan), Flat River that is credited for attracting other settlers. The newly formed Green's Village attracted many people of Denmark, Danish origin who followed another early Danish settler's positive letters home regarding the area. Because of the town's heritage, Greenville celebrates the Danish Festival every year on the third weekend of August. A post office was established on January 20, 1848, with Abel French as the first postmaster. John Green had the village platted in 1853 and it was a station on the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad. Greenville incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1871. Hen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan Legislature
The Michigan Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is organized as a bicameral body composed of an upper chamber, the Senate, and a lower chamber, the House of Representatives. Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, adopted in 1963, defines the role of the Legislature and how it is to be constituted. The chief purposes of the Legislature are to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws. The Legislature meets in the Capitol building in Lansing. The 102nd Michigan Legislature will be sworn in January 1, 2023. Titles Members of the Senate are referred to as Senators and members of the House of Representatives are referred to as Representatives. Because this shadows the terminology used to describe members of Congress, constituents and the news media, using ''The Associated Press Stylebook'', often refer to legislators as state senators or state representatives to avoid confusion with their federal counterparts. Michigan Senate The Senate is t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Macomb County, Michigan
Macomb County ( ) is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Michigan, bordering Lake St. Clair, and is part of northern Metro Detroit. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 881,217, making it the third-most populous county in the state. The county seat is Mt. Clemens. Macomb County is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Detroit is located south of the county's southern border. Macomb County contains 27 cities, townships and villages, including three of the top ten most-populous municipalities in Michigan as of the 2010 census: Warren (#3), Sterling Heights (#4) and Clinton Township (#10). Most of this population is concentrated south of Hall Road (M-59), one of the county's main thoroughfares. History The Ojibwe lived in the area for centuries before European contact and were preceded by other cultures of ancient indigenous peoples. The first European colonizers were French, and they arrived in the area ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2008 Michigan House Of Representatives Election
The 2008 Michigan House of Representatives elections were held on November 4, 2008, with partisan primaries to select the parties' nominees in the various districts on August 5, 2008. , this remains the last time the Democrats won a majority in the Michigan State House. Results Districts 1–28 Districts 29–55 Districts 56–83 Districts 84–110 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010 Michigan House Of Representatives Election
The 2010 elections for the Michigan House of Representatives were held on November 2, 2010, with partisan primary elections held August 3, 2010, to determine the party's nominees. Candidates Impact of term limits Due to term limit provisions in Michigan's Constitution, 54 candidates were unable to seek re-election to the House, resulting in the largest turnover in the lower chamber since the adoption of term limits in 1992. Results Districts 1–28 Districts 29–55 Districts 56–83 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2012 Michigan House Of Representatives Election
The 2012 Michigan House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2012, with partisan primaries to select the parties' nominees in the various districts on August 7, 2012. Due to gerrymandering, the Republican Party retained its majority in the House of Representatives despite losing the popular vote. Rep. Roy Schmidt scandal State Representative Roy Schmidt was defeated for re-election after assisting in engineering an election-rigging scandal by which he switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party and recruited a straw candidate to run as a Democrat in order to ensure a swift re-election. The scandal ultimately cost him his seat in the House. Speaker of the House James "Jase" Bolger was also implicated in the scandal, and his race for the 63rd district was made competitive because of his role in it. The matter was referred to Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, serving as a one-person grand jury, who ruled in August 2013 that neither Schm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014 Michigan House Of Representatives Election
The 2014 Michigan House of Representatives elections were held on November 4, 2014, with partisan primaries to select the parties' nominees in the various districts on August 5, 2014. Members elected at the 2014 election served in the 98th Michigan Legislature which convened on January 7, 2015. Term-limited members Under the Michigan Constitution, members of the state Senate are only able to serve two four-years terms, and members of the House of Representatives are limited to three two-years terms. The following members are term-limited from seeking re-election to the House in 2014. Democrats (12) * 5th District: Fred Durhal, Jr. (Detroit) * 6th District: Rashida Tlaib (Detroit) * 8th District: David Nathan (Detroit) * 12th District: Douglas Geiss (Taylor) * 13th District: Andrew Kandrevas (Southgate) * 21st District: Dian Slavens ( Canton) * 22nd District: Harold Haugh ( Roseville) * 27th District: Ellen Cogen Lipton ( Huntington Woods) * 34th District: Woodrow Sta ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2016 Michigan House Of Representatives Election
An election was held on November 8, 2016 to elect all 110 members to Michigan's House of Representatives. The election coincided with elections for other offices, including U.S. President, U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016. There was no change in the composition of the House as Republicans retained control, winning 63 seats compared to 47 seats for the Democrats. Members elected at the 2016 election served in the 99th Michigan Legislature which convened on January 11, 2017. Background Over one-third of the House could not seek re-election because of term-limits, with the legislators who were elected in the 2010 mid-term elections, that saw the House Republican conference pick up 21 seats, the largest net gain for one party in an election since Michigan's newly constituted term-limits went into effect in 1992. Term-limited members Under the Michigan Constitution, members of the state Senate are able to serve only two fou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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James Lower
James Lower (born April 10, 1989) is an American politician who has served as a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives representing the 70th district since 2017. Lower previously served on the Ionia County Board of Commissioners, was the Village Manager of Edmore, Michigan, and was the campaign manager for Brian Calley's state senate campaign in 2010. Elected office and political career Lower was elected to the Ionia County Board of Commissioners in 2010, becoming one of the youngest elected officials in Michigan and the board's youngest member as a 21-year-old. In 2012, Lower ran an unsuccessful campaign for Ionia County Clerk. In 2014, Lower accepted a job as the Edmore Village Manager, earning an annual salary of $45,000. He resigned from this job after 18 months when he announced his candidacy for the Michigan House of Representatives. Michigan state representative Rick Outman was term limited out of the 70th District House seat in 2016. Lower announce ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 Michigan House Of Representatives Election
An election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect all 110 members to Michigan's House of Representatives. The election coincided with elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Governor and Senate. The primary election was held on August 7, 2018. Republicans retained control of the House, despite losing the popular vote, after a net loss of five seats, winning 58 seats compared to 52 seats for the Democrats. Term-limited members Under the Michigan Constitution, members of the state Senate are able to serve only two four-year terms, and members of the House of Representatives are limited to three two-year terms, some of the toughest term-limit laws in the country. After the 2018 mid-term elections, nearly 70 percent of the state Senate and 20 percent of the state House were forced to leave office because of term-limits. The following members were prevented by term-limits from seeking re-election to the House in 2018. This list does not inc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Home Township, Montcalm County, Michigan
Home Township is a civil township of Montcalm County in the U.S. state of Michigan Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and .... As of the 2020 census, the township population was 2,716. Geography The township is in northeastern Montcalm County and is bordered to the north by Isabella County. The village of Edmore is in the south-central part of the township. State highway M-46 crosses the township, passing through Edmore and leading east to St. Louis, Michigan, St. Louis and west to Lakeview, Michigan, Lakeview. M-66 (Michigan highway), M-66 runs along the western border of the township south of M-46, leading south to Stanton, Michigan, Stanton, the Montcalm county seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Home Township has a total area of , of which , or 0.33%, are ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |