Matt Salmon

Matt Salmon

Matt Salmon

Matthew James Salmon (born January 21, 1958 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) is an American politician . From 1995 to 2001 he represented the first congressional constituency of the state of Arizona in the US House of Representatives , from 2013 to 2017 the fifth.

Early years

Matt Salmon attended Mesa High School in Arizona until 1976 . He then studied at Arizona State University until 1981 and then at Brigham Young University in Provo until 1986 . After completing his studies, Salmon entered the telecommunications industry.

Political career

Salmon became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1991 and 1995 he was a member of the Arizona Senate . There he was deputy group leader of the Republicans since 1993. In the 1994 congressional elections, he was elected as his party's candidate for the US House of Representatives. There he completed three legislative terms between January 3, 1995 and January 3, 2001. In Congress , he unsuccessfully advocated a three-term limit for congressmen's terms. Because of his credibility on this issue, he did not run for a fourth term in 2000.

In 2002 he was defeated in the Arizona gubernatorial election with 45.3 percent of the vote by Janet Napolitano , who reached 46.2 percent. Salmon then became chairman of the Republican Party in Arizona. In 2007 he was campaign manager for Scott Smith, who successfully ran for the post of Mayor of Mesa . In 2008 Salmon became President of the Competitive Telecommunications Association and in 2009 he became President of the Electronic Cigarette Association .

Salmon returned to politics in 2012. He won the 2012 election in the 5th congressional electoral district and took up his new mandate in the House of Representatives on January 3, 2013. Salmon was a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Foreign Affairs Committee and four sub-committees. He was re-elected in 2014, but decided not to run again in the November 2016 election, so that he resigned from Congress on January 3, 2017.

After the death of Senator John McCain in August 2018, Salmon was under discussion as his possible interim successor, who will be determined by Governor Doug Ducey until the by-election in November 2020 .

Web links

• Matt Salmon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ Jonathan Martin: Arizona Governor Faces a Tough Choice: A Senator Made From McCain's Mold or Trump's. In: The New York Times , August 26, 2018.