Chip Cravaack

Chip Cravaack (2011)

Raymond John "Chip" Cravaack (* 29. January 1959 in Charleston , West Virginia ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2011 to 2013 he represented the eighth constituency of the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

In the 2012 election he was defeated by his Democratic competitor Rick Nolan .

Life

Chip Cravaack comes from a military family: his father of German-Austrian descent was a soldier in the Korean War , his grandfather moved to the First World War . Cravaack grew up in Cincinnati and attended school there. In 1981 he earned a bachelor's degree from the United States Naval Academy ; 1989 followed the Master of Education at the University of West Florida . He then worked as a military pilot and as a pilot for Northwest Airlines .

In the 2010 elections to the United States House of Representatives , Cravaack won as a Republican candidate in the eighth district of Minnesota with 47 percent of the vote and 4,400 votes ahead of the Democratic incumbent Jim Oberstar , who came up with 46 percent. Cravaack became the first Republican representative of the 8th district of Minnesota since 1947. In the 2012 election , Cravaack lost his seat again against the Democrat Rick Nolan with about 45 to 55 percent of the vote and left office on January 3, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Chip Cravaack  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Chip Cravaack in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alex Friedrich, Dan Kraker, Mark Zdechlik: Nolan defeats Cravaack in 8th District. In: MPR News , November 6, 2012.