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Charlie Janssen (born January 15, 1971) is an American politician from the U.S. state of
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...
. A member of the
Republican Party, Jansen served in the
Nebraska Legislature
The Nebraska Legislature (also called the Unicameral) is the legislature of the U.S. state of Nebraska. The Legislature meets at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln. With 49 members, known as "senators", the Nebraska Legislature is the small ...
from 2009 to 2014; in 2014, he was elected
Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts.
Janssen was born in
Fremont, Nebraska
Fremont is a city and county seat of Dodge County in the eastern portion of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. The population was 27,141 at the 2020 census. Fremont is the home of Midland University.
History
From the 1830 ...
. He graduated with a BS from
Wayne State College
Wayne State College is a public college in Wayne, Nebraska. It is part of the Nebraska State College System and enrolls 4,202 students. The college opened as a public normal school in 1910 after the state purchased the private Nebraska Normal Co ...
in 1997. Janssen served in the United States Navy from 1989 to 1993. He lives in Fremont, and has two children, Charlie Jr. and Betsy Anne.
Janssen served on the Fremont City Council before being elected to the Nebraska legislature. In 2008, he was elected to represent the 15th Nebraska legislative district replacing his uncle,
Ray Janssen
Ray Janssen (born July 5, 1937 in Hooper, Nebraska) served as a Nebraska state senator from Nickerson, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature from 1993 to 2009 and as a grocer. __NOTOC__
Janssen graduated from Hooper Public School. He was also i ...
of Nickerson. In the Legislature, he sat on the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs, Intergovernmental Cooperation, and Transportation and Telecommunications committees. He briefly proposed an amendment to LB403 (a bill mandating the use of
E-Verify
E-Verify is a United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website that allows businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees, both U.S. and foreign citizens, to work in the United States.
No federal law mandates use of E-Verif ...
for public employers, public contractors and companies seeking state tax breaks) which would have overturned the
Dream Act of 2006 in Nebraska, however he later withdrew his amendment.
Janssen successfully ran as the Republican nominee for
Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts in the
2014 election to succeed
Mike Foley and was sworn in on January 8, 2015.
Janssen was reelected in 2018 amidst controversy involving being discovered drinking at local bars for hours at a time during workdays on multiple occasions.
References
External links
Charlie Janssen's campaign websiteProject Vote Smart: Senator Charlie Janssen's Biography
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1971 births
21st-century American politicians
Living people
Nebraska Auditors of Public Accounts
Nebraska city council members
Republican Party Nebraska state senators
People from Fremont, Nebraska
Wayne State College alumni