John Hickenlooper

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John Hickenlooper (2015)

John Wright Hickenlooper (born February 7, 1952 in Narberth , Montgomery County , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Former Mayor of Denver was governor of the state of Colorado from 2011 to 2019 . After two terms in office, he could not take office again in 2018 and left his post in 2019. 2019 he ran a time for the presidential election in 2020 in the area code of his party. He is running for the United States Senate in the 2020 election .

Family, education and work

Hickenlooper studied at Wesleyan University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1974 and a Masters in geology in 1980 . He owned several restaurants in Denver in the late 1980s. With his initiative, some neglected neighborhoods (Wynkoop, Lower Downtown) were renewed and redeveloped. He worked as an entrepreneur in a geologically oriented company.

Hickenlooper is divorced and has one son. He is the cousin of screenwriter and director George Hickenlooper .

Political career

Mayor of Denver

In June 2003, Hickenlooper was elected Mayor of Denver. In April 2005, Time magazine named him one of the five best city mayors in the country. During his tenure he was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition , an initiative that was launched in 2006 and campaigned for gun control (see Everytown for Gun Safety ).

Governor of Colorado

Governor Hickenlooper speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2013

In the 2010 gubernatorial election , Hickenlooper applied for the successor to Bill Ritter, who was no longer running . He had to deal with two conservative competitors: Dan Maes , who was nominated by the Republican Party and part of the Tea Party movement , and former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo . This had asked to be set up by his party because he had significantly better poll numbers than Dan Maes and Scott McInnis, who was narrowly defeated by him in the primary . When Maes did not renounce his candidacy, as requested, Tancredo stood for the right-wing Constitution Party . Because of this split, Hickenlooper would have had a simple majority to win; he prevailed with 51 percent of the vote ahead of Tancredo (36.4 percent) and Maes (11.1 percent).

On January 11, 2011, Hickenlooper took over the governor's office together with his lieutenant governor Joseph A. Garcia , former president of Colorado State University . During his first term in office, his state's economy experienced a significant boom and unemployment fell. The construction and fracking industries in particular contributed to this with their growth. In March 2013, Hickenlooper signed several laws to tighten gun law , which, among other things, limited the number of magazines for semi-automatic weapons .

In the gubernatorial election on November 4, 2014 , Hickenlooper was confirmed in office. He defeated the Republican candidate Bob Beauprez with 49.3 against 46.0 percent of the vote. Joseph Garcia was re-elected lieutenant governor at his side. He started his second term in January 2015.

Presidential candidacy

From 2017 onwards, Hickenlooper showed interest in running for the presidency in the Democratic primary . At the end of October 2018, he declared during an election campaign in one of the important early pre-election states of New Hampshire that he was clearly leaning towards a candidacy. On March 4, 2019, he announced his candidacy with a video message. He achieved only low poll numbers and donations and caused boos at the regional party conference in California in June 2019 when he spoke out against socialism , which had long been used as a polemical catchphrase against the Democrats, but has now been viewed as positive by more and more party supporters . On August 15, 2019, he announced that he would end his candidacy.

Senate candidacy

Instead, Hickenlooper announced on August 22, 2019 that it would run for the 2020 United States Senate election in Colorado. The Republican mandate holder Cory Gardner was in view of poor poll results for him and for President Donald Trump in the state as at risk. So far, polls give Hickenlooper a clear lead in the Democratic candidate field and over Gardner. However, the official finding by the Colorado Independent Ethics Committee on June 5, 2020 that Hickenlooper violated Colorado state regulations by accepting free flights on private planes from a Denver-based real estate company has not yet been taken into account in the opinion polls.

Web links

Commons : John Hickenlooper  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayor Bloomberg And Boston Mayor Menino Announce Expansion Of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition To More Than 100 Mayors Nationwide. In: NYC.gov , October 5, 2006.
  2. ↑ Eli Stokols: How Colorado Gun-Control Advocates Beat the NRA In: The New Yorker , February 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ Andreas Rüesch: With anger in my stomach in the political fight. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 27, 2010.
  4. ↑ Lynn Bartels, Kurtis Lee: 3 new gun bills on the books in Colorado despite its Wild West image. In: Denver Post , March 20, 2013.
  5. ↑ Hickenlooper, John. In: Our Campaigns.
  6. ↑ Jordain Carney: Colorado governor says he's 'leaning strongly' toward presidential run. In: The Hill , October 31, 2018.
  7. ^ Dan Merica, Scott McLean: Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces 2020 presidential campaign. In: CNN.com , March 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Julia Manchester: Hickenlooper ends presidential bid. In: The Hill , August 15, 2019.
  9. ^ Nic Garcia: Colorado Republicans' conundrum: Donald Trump and the unaffiliated voters who loathe him. In: Denver Post , November 11, 2018.
  10. ↑ Nic Garcia, Justin Wingerter: John Hickenlooper is running for the US Senate: “I'm not done fighting for the people of Colorado”. In: The Denver Post , August 21, 2019, updated August 22, 2019
  11. ↑ Colorado 2020: Sanders, Biden and Warren lead Democratic Field; Democrats look to gain Senate seat. In: Emerson Polling , August 2019.
  12. ↑ Hickenlooper violated ethics law by accepting free flights, dinners , June 5, 2020, The Washington Times , accessed June 7, 2020
  13. ↑ John Hickenlooper violated ethics laws twice in 2018, commission finds June 5, 2020, The Denver Post , accessed June 7, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Hickenlooper, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hickenlooper, John Wright (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, governor of Colorado
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Narberth , Pennsylvania