Steve Knight (politician)

Steve Knight (2015)

Stephen "Steve" Knight (born December 17, 1966 at Edwards Air Force Base , California ) is an American politician . From January 2015 to January 2019 he represented the 25th constituency of the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Steve Knight attended Palmdale High School and later Antelope Valley College in Lancaster . He served in the United States Army and later worked in the police force. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . Between 2005 and 2008 he was a member of Palmdale City Council ; from 2008 to 2012 he was a member of the California State Assembly . Since 2010 he was there as Assistant Minority Leader deputy leader of the Republicans. Between 2012 and 2014 he was a member of the California Senate . In the meantime he was also Deputy Mayor of Palmdale.

In the 2014 congressional election , Knight was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 25th constituency of California , where he succeeded Howard McKeon , who was no longer running, on January 3, 2015 . In the runoff election, he won against his Republican party colleague Tony Strickland with 53:47 percent of the vote. Since he was re-elected in 2016, he was also a member of the 115th Congress of the United States , which met on January 3, 2017 . After losing the 2018 congressional election to Democratic challenger Katie Hill , he left the House of Representatives on January 3, 2019.

After Hill resigned in 2019 on allegations of sexual relations with a congressional official, Knight ran for both the extraordinary election and the regular election for her 2020 seat, but failed to make it into the primary election on March 3, 2020 associated runoff elections.

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Re-election 2016 at Ballotpedia

Web links

Steve Knight in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
Web presence at the congress
Profile on the National Journal

Individual evidence

↑ Caleb Lunetta, Tammy Murga: Former Rep. Steve Knight announces bid for congressional seat, Cripe pulls out of race. In: Santa Clarita Valley Signal. November 9, 2019, accessed March 1, 2020 .
↑ California's 25th Congressional District special election, 2020 (March 3 top-two primary). In: Ballotpedia. Lucy Burns Institute, accessed March 16, 2020 .
↑ California's 25th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 top-two primary). In: Ballotpedia. Lucy Burns Institute, accessed March 16, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Knight, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Knight, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	17th December 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edwards Air Force Base , California

[1] Caleb Lunetta, Tammy Murga: Former Rep. Steve Knight announces bid for congressional seat, Cripe pulls out of race. In: Santa Clarita Valley Signal. November 9, 2019, accessed March 1, 2020 .

[2] California's 25th Congressional District special election, 2020 (March 3 top-two primary). In: Ballotpedia. Lucy Burns Institute, accessed March 16, 2020 .

[3] California's 25th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 top-two primary). In: Ballotpedia. Lucy Burns Institute, accessed March 16, 2020 .