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Mike Kowall
Mike Kowall (born September 10, 1951) is a former Republican member of the Michigan Senate, representing the 15th district from 2011 until 2018. He served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1998 to 2002. Kowall's wife, Eileen, serves in the Michigan House of Representatives, making them the first married couple to serve in the Legislature at the same time in 25 years (John Engler and Colleen House Colleen House (March 17, 1952 – December 24, 2022) was an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, from 1974 to 1976 and 1983 to 1986. Early life and education House was born in Bay City, Michigan, ... were the last). Electoral history References Republican Party Michigan state senators 1951 births Living people Republican Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives People from Oakland County, Michigan 20th-century American politicians ...
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Michigan's 15th Senate District
Michigan's 15th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. The 15th district was created by the 1850 Michigan Constitution, as the 1835 constitution only permitted a maximum of eight senate districts. It has been represented by Democrat Jeff Irwin since 2023, succeeding Republican Jim Runestad. Geography District 15 encompasses parts of Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw counties. 2011 Apportionment Plan District 15, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered western Oakland County in the outer suburbs of Detroit, including the communities of Novi, West Bloomfield Township, Commerce Township, White Lake Township, Wixom, Lyon Township, South Lyon, Walled Lake, and most of Northville. The district overlapped with Michigan's 11th and 14th congressional districts, and with the 29th, 38th, 39th, 40th, and 44th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legisl ...
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List Of Majority Leaders Of The Michigan Senate
The Majority Leader of the Michigan Senate is the leader of the majority party in the upper chamber of the Michigan Legislature. Elected by the members of the majority caucus, the majority leader has the authority under the rules of the Senate to name members to committees, refer legislation to committee, and perform other duties required by the rules or by state law. References {{Michigan State Senators * Senate majority leaders Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ... M ...
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Colleen House
Colleen House (March 17, 1952 – December 24, 2022) was an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, from 1974 to 1976 and 1983 to 1986. Early life and education House was born in Bay City, Michigan, on March 17, 1952, to parents James Daniel and Kathleen House. House graduated from All Saints Central High School in 1969. House earned a B.A. in political science from Michigan State University in 1973. Career House was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in a special election in 1974. House represented the 101st district until December 31, 1976. From 1977-78, she served as director of public affairs for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. In 1980, House helped run the presidential primary campaign of George H.W. Bush in Michigan and his upset victory over front-runner Ronald Reagan helped him to remain in the race until the GOP National Convention, where Reagan tapped him as his vice presidential runningmate. On November ...
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People From Oakland County, Michigan
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ...
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Republican Party Members Of The Michigan House Of Representatives
Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or against monarchy; the opposite of monarchism ***Republicanism in Australia ***Republicanism in Barbados ***Republicanism in Canada *** Republicanism in Ireland *** Republicanism in Morocco ***Republicanism in the Netherlands ***Republicanism in New Zealand ***Republicanism in Spain ***Republicanism in Sweden ***Republicanism in the United Kingdom ***Republicanism in the United States **Classical republicanism, republicanism as formulated in the Renaissance *A member of a Republican Party: **Republican Party (other) **Republican Party (United States), one of the two main parties in the U.S. **Fianna Fáil, a conservative political party in Ireland **The Republicans (France), the main centre-right political party in France **Republican Peo ...
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Living People
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ...
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Republican Party Michigan State Senators
Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or against monarchy; the opposite of monarchism ***Republicanism in Australia ***Republicanism in Barbados ***Republicanism in Canada *** Republicanism in Ireland *** Republicanism in Morocco ***Republicanism in the Netherlands ***Republicanism in New Zealand ***Republicanism in Spain ***Republicanism in Sweden ***Republicanism in the United Kingdom ***Republicanism in the United States **Classical republicanism, republicanism as formulated in the Renaissance *A member of a Republican Party: **Republican Party (other) **Republican Party (United States), one of the two main parties in the U.S. **Fianna Fáil, a conservative political party in Ireland **The Republicans (France), the main centre-right political party in France **Republican Peo ...
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Kerry Bentivolio
Kerry Bentivolio (born October 6, 1951) is an American politician and educator who is the former United States Representative for , in office from 2013 to 2015. Bentivolio, a Republican, defeated Democratic nominee Syed Taj, a physician, in the November 6, 2012 election. Bentivolio was defeated for the Republican nomination in his bid for a second term by attorney David Trott. He launched a write-in campaign for the November 2014 general election but lost again to Trott. After Trott announced he was not seeking reelection in 2018, Bentivolio again sought election in the eleventh district, but finished last in the primary. In October 2019, Bentivolio announced that he would again run for his former congressional seat against Democrat Haley Stevens in the 2020 election. Bentivolio would finish third in the Republican primary. Bentivolio worked as a designer in the automotive industry for twenty years, followed by teaching for fifteen years in schools and institutions. He is an ...
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Klint Kesto
Klint Kesto is a former member of the Michigan House of Representatives representing a district primarily consisting of Wixom and Commerce Township. Kesto has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Wayne State University. He worked as a staff attorney at the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office and also managed a family-owned restaurant shop before his election in 2012. Kesto is a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church , native_name_lang = syc , image = Assyrian Church.png , imagewidth = 200px , alt = , caption = Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows Baghdad, Iraq , abbreviation = , type .... He was the first Chaldean elected to the Michigan House of Representatives. References State House bio {{DEFAULTSORT:Kesto, Klint American Eastern Catholics American people of Iraqi descent Chaldean Americans Living people Republican Party members of th ...
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Rocky Raczkowski
Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski (born December 29, 1968) is an American politician from Michigan who was the 2010 Republican Party (United States), Republican nominee for . Early life, education and career A resident of Troy, Michigan, Troy, he is a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army Reserves. He served as the Chief Executive of Star Tickets Plus from 2007-2010 Raczkowski endorse Rick Perry for the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012 republican primary, and co chaired several events for his election, after Perry withdrawal, Raczkowski endorsed Rick Santorum. In the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 primaries, Raczkowski endorsed Ted Cruz. Michigan House of Representatives Raczkowski was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2003, representing the Michigan's 37th House of Representatives district, 37th District (Farmington, Michigan, Farmington and Farmington Hills, Michigan, Farmington Hills). In 2002 he was Term limit ...
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Matt Maddock
Matthew Maddock (born December 1965) is an American politician in the Republican Party serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. His district, the 44th, represents areas covering Highland Township, Milford Township, Springfield Township, White Lake Township, and part of Waterford Township. In his first term, Maddock was appointed to be the Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, as well as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. A Republican, Maddock was first elected in 2018. Prior to being elected to the 110-member Michigan House of Representatives, he was a businessman in Oakland County. Maddock was expelled from the Republican caucus by Speaker Jason Wentworth in April 2022 for violating confidentiality rules. Career On November 6, 2018, Maddock was elected to his first term. In 2021, Maddock proposed legislation to require fact-checkers to register with the state of Michigan and fine them if they en ...
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