Daniel Victor LauwersMichigan Committee Statement of Organization

Michigan Secretary of State The Michigan Department of State is administered by the Secretary of State, who is elected on a partisan ballot for a term of four years in gubernatorial elections. The Secretary of State is the third-highest official in the State of Michigan. A ...

, November 25, 2019. (born January 15, 1963) is a member of the

Michigan Senate The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. Along with the Michigan House of Representatives, it composes the state legislature, which has powers, roles and duties defined by Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, ado ...

, representing the 25th district. He previously served in 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 ...

and represented the 81st district, made up of the areas just south of

Port Huron, Michigan Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. The population was 30,184 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to Port Huron Township but is administered separately. Located along the St. Clair ...

along the St. Clair River, that are functional suburbs of Detroit with additional business related to the water tourism, combined with an inland area to the west of Port Huron that is largely still rural farm country with small towns that largely function as trade centers, and only very limited influx of commuters to the Metro-Detroit area. Lauwers comes from the more rural western portion of the district, and has a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

. Lauwers owns Eastern Michigan Grain. He was a legislative assistant to

Bill Schuette William Duncan Schuette ( ; born October 13, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd attorney general of Michigan from 2011 to 2019. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Senate in 1990 and for Governor of Mi ...

when Schutte was in the US House of Representatives. Lauwers was first elected to the state house in 2012. He also runs Nick Lauwers Farms with his son Nick.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lauwers, Daniel Victor 1963 births 21st-century American politicians Businesspeople from Michigan Living people Republican Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives Republican Party Michigan state senators Michigan State University alumni People from Almont, Michigan