Jared Polis

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Jared Polis (2016)

Jared Schutz Polis (born May 12, 1975 in Boulder , Colorado ) is an American Democratic Party politician and Governor of Colorado since January 2019 . The former entrepreneur has represented Colorado's 2nd congressional electoral district in the US House of Representatives from 2009 , which consists of an area west of Denver around the city of Boulder.

Career

Family, education and work

Jared Polis was born in 1975 to a couple active in the peace movement of the 1960s. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in Princeton , New Jersey, and while he was a student he founded American Information Systems , an internet access and web hosting company, and, with his parents, bluemountainarts.com , an online greeting card company, which he founded in 1999 sold to Excite @ Home . He later started an online flower shop and chain of cinemas showing films in Spanish or with Spanish subtitles, and worked in an aquaculture company .

Polis is Jewish and lives in Boulder with his significant other.

Political career

Jared Polis at a 2008 parade

Formerly Chairman of the Colorado State Board of Education , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives on November 4, 2008 in the Colorado 2nd Congressional District. He took the oath on January 6, 2009 as the successor of the Senate exchanged Mark Udall from. Polis is the first politician to be openly gay when he was first elected to the House of Representatives . He is a member of the United States House Committee on Education and Labor and the United States House Committee on Rules . Since then, Polis has been re-elected every two years.

In 2018, he decided not to run for the House of Representatives again . Instead, he applied for the office of governor of Colorado and thus the successor to his party colleague John Hickenlooper . This could not run again after two terms of office. At the Democratic Primary in June 2018, Polis prevailed against several competitors and faced Republican Walker Stapelton in the main election on November 6, 2018 , whom he defeated with 53.3% of the vote. Only 43% of voters were in favor of his competitor. According to polls, non-party voters, of whom there are many in Colorado, voted 59 to 25 percent for Polis, and for non-party women it was 45 percentage points ahead. As running mate for the post of lieutenant governor , Polis selected the former MP in the Colorado House of Representatives , Dianne Primavera .

His inauguration took place on January 8, 2019. Polis is the first US governor to be openly gay .

Web links

Commons : Jared Polis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kate Phillips: New Voices in Congress Will Change the Tone of the Democratic Majority. In: The New York Times , January 7, 2009.
  2. ↑ Jared Polis. In: Our Campaigns.
  3. ↑ Ernest Luning: Poll finds unaffiliated voters in Colo. don't like GOP or Trump. In: Colorado Politics , November 15, 2018.
  4. ^ Jared Polis wins Democratic primary for Colorado governor. In: Denver Post , June 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Polis, Jared
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polis, Jared Schutz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulder , Colorado