Jim Rubens is an American politician from the state of

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. A member of the Republican Party, Rubens served in the

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for two terms.

Biography

Rubens was born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

. He attended

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

. He worked as a developer and investor. Identifying himself as a

fiscal conservative Fiscal conservatism is a political and economic philosophy regarding fiscal policy and fiscal responsibility with an ideological basis in capitalism, individualism, limited government, and ''laissez-faire'' economics.M. O. Dickerson et al., ''A ...

, Rubens formed a new

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in 1993, called the New Majority, an offshoot of the Independence Party of New York. Rubens ran for the

in 1994, challenging Ralph Hough in the Republican Party primary election. Rubens defeated Hough, and won in the general election. In 1995 he was sworn in. Rubens was reelected in 1996. Rather than run for reelection to the New Hampshire Senate in 1998, he ran for

Governor of New Hampshire The governor of New Hampshire is the head of government of New Hampshire. The governor is elected during the biennial state general election in November of even-numbered years. New Hampshire is one of only two states, along with bordering Verm ...

in the 1998 election, but lost. Rubens ran again for the state Senate in 2000, but lost. Rubens recently served as the chairman of the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling. He stepped down from this position when he became a candidate for the

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, seeking the Republican nomination in the 2014 election. He had the support of the

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for the race. Rubens lost the primary election to Scott Brown. Rubens lost to incumbent Senator

Kelly Ayotte Kelly Ann Ayotte ( ; born June 27, 1968) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from New Hampshire from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Ayotte served as New Hampshire Attorney General from ...

in the 2016 election. Rubens in 2010 published a non-fiction book, OverSuccess, Healing the American Obsession with Wealth, Fame, Power and Perfectio

One of the book's theses is that success benchmarks and competition for social status have sharply escalated over past decades, shrinking space for personal recognition for many Americans, leading to documented increases in several forms of individual, societal and cultural pathology. Rubens serves on the board of American Promis

which seeks ratification by 2026 of a constitutional amendment restoring power to Congress and the States to set reasonable limits on campaign spending and contributions. Rubens serves as New England chair for Take Back Our Republi

the nation's leading conservative anti-corruption organization.

Personal

Rubens is from

Hanover, New Hampshire Hanover is a town located along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 11,870. The town is home to the Ivy League university Dartmouth College, the U.S. Army Corps of En ...

. He has a wife and a son.

References

External links

Official campaign site
* * Dartmouth College alumni Living people Republican Party New Hampshire state senators People from Brooklyn People from Hanover, New Hampshire Year of birth missing (living people) {{NewHampshire-politician-stub