Charlie Janssen gubernatorial campaign, 2014

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

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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.

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External links

Charlie Janssen's campaign website

Project Vote Smart: Senator Charlie Janssen's Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Janssen, Charlie 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