Kevin Cramer

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Kevin Cramer (2013)

Kevin Cramer (* 21st January 1961 in Rolla , North Dakota ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . From 2013 to 2019 he represented the state of North Dakota in the US House of Representatives . He has been a member of the US Senate for North Dakota since January 3, 2019 .

Career

Kevin Cramer attended the Kindred High School and then to 1983, the Concordia College in Moorhead ( Minnesota ). He then studied at the University of Mary in Bismarck until 2003 . Politically, he joined the Republican Party . From 1991 to 1993 he was its state chairman for North Dakota. Between 1993 and 1997 he served as his state's director of tourism. In 1996 and 1998 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives. From 1997 to 2000 he was responsible for the economic development and finances of his state; Between 2003 and 2012 he was the Public Service Commissioner in North Dakota. In 2010, he failed in his party's primary elections when he sought their nomination for the upcoming congressional elections.

In the 2012 congressional election , however, Cramer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the state-wide constituency of North Dakota , where he succeeded Rick Berg on January 3, 2013 , who was unsuccessful for a seat in the US Senate tried. In the election he received 54 percent of the vote. His Democratic counterpart candidate Pam Gulleson came to 42 percent. Cramer is or has been a member of the Natural Resources Committee and three of its sub-committees. He was previously a member of the Science, Space and Technology Committee . After two re-elections in 2014 and 2016, his mandate runs until January 3, 2019.

In February 2018, Kramer announced that he would run as the Republican candidate for the 2018 Senate election and therefore not run for the House again. After his victory in the party primary , he met the democratic mandate holder Heidi Heitkamp in the main election in November 2018 . Political observers have long assumed a completely open election, especially since Donald Trump - who supported Kramer's candidacy - had won the state by a clear double-digit lead in 2016 . The lobby organization Americans for Prosperity associated with the Koch brothers , which is considered an important donor to the Republicans, declared at the end of July 2018 that it would not support Cramer because he supported a policy of increasing spending. In October 2018, Kramer was clearly ahead of Heitkamp in several surveys. Although the majority of North Dakota's voters supported the nomination of the conservative, Donald Trump-proposed judge Brett Kavanaugh for the United States Supreme Court , Heitkamp voted against him, and Cramer's polling lead expanded. He won the election with 55.4 to 44.6 percent of the vote and will be a member of the Senate from January 3, 2019.

Cramer is married and has five children.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Erica Werner: Republican Kevin Cramer to run for Senate in North Dakota in boost for GOP. In: The Washington Post , February 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ Jonathan Easley: Koch network won't back GOP Senate candidate in North Dakota. In: The Hill , July 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ Elena Schor: Heitkamp to vote 'no' on Kavanaugh. In: Politico , October 4, 2018; Justin Wise: Heitkamp raises more than $ 12 million in first 17 days of October. In: The Hill , October 25, 2018.
  4. ^ North Dakota US Senate Election Results. In: The New York Times , November 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rolla , North Dakota