Mark Neumann

Mark Neumann (2010)

Mark W. Neumann (born February 27, 1954 in East Troy , Wisconsin ) is an American politician . Between 1995 and 1999 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After high school, Mark Neumann studied mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, among other things. Subsequently he worked as a math teacher. He was also a football and basketball coach . He also got into the real estate business. He was the founder and owner of Neumann Developments Inc. , based in Janesville .

Politically, Neumann joined the Republican Party . In 1993 he ran unsuccessfully in a by-election to Congress . In the 1994 elections , however, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Democrat Peter W. Barca on January 3, 1995 . After a re-election in 1996, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1999. There he was a member of the grant committee and the budget committee .

In 1998 Neumann decided not to run for the US House of Representatives again. Instead, he applied for a seat in the US Senate , where he got 48.4 percent of the vote and thus narrowly lost to the Democrat Russ Feingold . In the following years he did not run for any higher state office. In April 2009, he announced his bid for the 2010 gubernatorial election . On September 14, 2010 he was defeated in the Republican primary to Scott Walker, who was later also victorious in the actual election .

Mark Neumann is married and has three children.

Web links

• Mark Neumann in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Own web presence