Bill Schuette

Bill Schuette (2017)

William Duncan "Bill" Schuette (born October 13, 1953 in Midland , Michigan ) is an American politician . Between 1985 and 1991 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives . He has been Attorney General of that state since 2011 and a Republican candidate for governor in 2018 .

Career

Bill Schuette attended Herbert Henry Dow High School in Midland until 1972 and then studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC until 1976. After completing a law degree at the University of San Francisco and being admitted to the bar in 1979, he began his new career Profession to work. Politically, Schuette joined the Republican Party . In 1972, 1974 and 1982 he was a delegate to their regional party conventions in Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1984 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the tenth constituency of Michigan, where he succeeded Democrat Donald J. Albosta on January 3, 1985 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1991 . There he was temporarily a member of the Budget Committee , the Agriculture Committee and the Select Committee on Aging .

In 1990 he declined to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate . He was then Michigan State Secretary of Agriculture from 1991 to 1993. From 1995 to 2003, Schuette served in the Michigan Senate . He then served as a judge at the court of appeal in that state between 2003 and 2009. In 2010, he was elected Attorney General of Michigan to succeed Mike Cox . He took up this position on January 1, 2011. In 2014 he was confirmed for a second four-year term.

In 2017, he announced his candidacy for governor after his party colleague Rick Snyder was not allowed to run again after two terms in office. His advocacy for the policies of US President Donald Trump earned him his support in the election campaign. In August 2018, Schuette then prevailed in the Republican primary against the incumbent Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley and was nominated as his party's candidate. In the actual gubernatorial election on November 6, 2018 , he met the Democrat Gretchen Whitmer , to whom he was defeated.

Web links

• Bill Schuette in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Biography on the Michigan Attorney General's website

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Michigan Governor - Schuette vs. Whitmer , RealClearPolitics (English)