Joe Heck

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Joe Heck (2011)

Joseph John "Joe" Heck (born October 30, 1961 in New York City ) is an American politician ( Republican Party ). From 2011 to 2017 he represented the state of Nevada in the US House of Representatives . In the 2016 election, he unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the US Senate .

education and profession

Joe Heck grew up in Pennsylvania . He studied at Pennsylvania State University until 1984 and then at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine until 1988 . He was trained as a specialist in osteopathy . In the following years he was also active in research in this profession and belongs to several medical faculties. He also ran his own company until 2011.

Since 1991 he has also been a Brigadier General in the United States Army Reserve . In 2006 he graduated from the Army War College in Carlisle (Pennsylvania) with a Masters in Strategic Studies and was active three times, including one in the Iraq War . He is a member of the American Legion .

Heck has been working for the Las Vegas-based political consulting firm Red Rock Strategies since February 2017 .

Political career

Between 2004 and 2008, Heck sat for the Republicans in the Nevada Senate .

In the 2010 congressional elections , Heck was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 3rd congressional electoral district of Nevada , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Dina Titus on January 3, 2011 . There, he was a member of the Armed Services Committee , the Committee on Education and Labor and the Intelligence Committee and four subcommittees. He was also a member of the Republican Steering Committee .

In the 2012 election , Heck prevailed with 50 to 43 percent of the vote against Democrat John Oceguera, then spokesman for the Nevada Assembly . Heck's constituency is considered to be one of the few remaining swing districts , which means that, according to the electoral structure, there is no clear tendency towards one of the two major parties. That's why the Democrats saw this as one of their best seat-winning opportunities ahead of the 2014 election . However, in a generally favorable political climate for the Republicans, Heck defeated his challenger Erin Bilbray with 61 to 37 percent of the vote.

In early July 2015, Heck announced that he was running for the seat in the US Senate in the 2016 election, which had been held by the non-re-running Democratic minority leader Harry Reid . Heck had been urged by the federal party and was considered a favorite for his party's nomination after Governor Brian Sandoval rejected a candidacy. March 2016 however, the gave tea party movement supported Republican candidate to the Senate election of 2010 , Sharron Angle , her renewed candidacy in the Primary known as anti-establishment candidate disaffected right wing of the party in the presidential prefix Donald Trump for hoped to motivate himself and criticized Heck as a member of the Washington elite and for his previously centrist , moderate demeanor. Heck was nominated as a Republican candidate and was considered a promising candidate for the general election campaign, which offered the party one of the few opportunities to win a swing state seat that had previously been held by Democrats in a structurally disadvantageous Senate election . His rival Democratic candidate was Catherine Cortez Masto , the state's former Attorney General . In the election in November 2016, the democratic candidate prevailed. Heck's mandate in the US House of Representatives ended on January 3, 2017 , as he no longer ran in the 2016 election .

Private

Heck has lived in southern Nevada since 1992 and has his primary residence in Henderson . He lives there with his wife, with whom he has three children. Heck is a Catholic and belongs to the lay organization of the Knights of Columbus .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Full Biography. ( Memento from February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Heck.House.gov.
  2. ^ Former Congressman Joe Heck Joins RedRock Strategies. Press release. In: Red Rock Strategies , February 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Nevada 3rd District - Heck vs. Oceguera. In: RealClearPolitics.
  4. ↑ In a rare swing district, Republican Rep. Joe Heck faces test from Democrat Erin Bilbray. In: Las Vegas Sun , June 26, 2014 (English).
  5. ↑ Samantha Lachman: Joe Heck Midterm Election Results. In: HuffingtonPost.com , November 4, 2014; Ross Miller: Silver State Election Night Results 2014. Last updated on December 15, 2014.
  6. ↑ Ben Botkin: Sharron Angle Running for US Senate Again in Nevada. In: Las Vegas Review-Journal , March 18, 2016.
  7. ↑ Michelle Rindels: Sharron Angle to Make Encore Bid for Reid's Senate Seat. In: Associated Press , March 18, 2016.
  8. ^ Reid Wilson: Why Nevada Could Decide Who Controls the Next US Senate. In: MorningConsult.com , July 6, 2015 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Heck, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heck, Joseph John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City